“Midlife women often juggle caregiving, careers, and hormonal shifts that can strain the immune system,” Boden-Albala says.

The new strain, which has soared in recent weeks, is thought to be more infectious than previous Covid variants due to mutations its developed that help it evade the immune system.

A new set of COVID-19 variants—which have been given the nickname FLiRT—are the new dominant strain in the United States, currently accounting for 28.2% of all cases, the Centers for Disease Control ...

Two new COVID-19 variants are spreading through the U.S., and medical providers in Connecticut are expecting an uptick in cases in the coming weeks.

The Trump administration is slashing health agency budgets and firing vaccine experts as highly transmissible variants threaten to double daily infections within a month.

In Nature Communications, authors describe a novel web platform for genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus called ...

After a fairly quiet spring, COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in the U.S. and SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, keeps churning out new variants. The latest is a trio, KP.2, KP.3, and ...

COVID-19 cases are rising this summer across much of the United States, with 27 states reporting growing or likely growing ...

A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.

Scientists are currently studying how well people are protected against severe disease from XFG. Researchers conducted lab studies using human cells and a "pseudovirus" stand-in for XFG, as well as ...

A promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by researchers at the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney ...

Covid-19 cases are rising again in 25 US states, driven by new variants like NB.1.8.1 (Nimbus) and XFG (Stratus). Experts warn of a summer wave due to fading immunity.