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Chicago and Cook County both remain in a “low community level” for the spread of COVID-19 — meaning the risk of contracting the virus is low. But public health officials say what’s also low is the ...

A NEW VACCINE IS EXPECTED TO ROLL OUT COME SEPTEMBER PENDING FDA APPROVAL. THE NEW VACCINE IS NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE FDA. THEY TALK ABOUT SEPTEMBER. THERE’S NO GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE SEPTEMBER ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Initially, enduring COVID had one redeeming quality: It gave you some short-term immunity from getting infected again. But the new omicron subvariants are shattering that trend ...

Children and teenagers generally exhibited some loss of antibody cross-neutralization against all five COVID-19 variants (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron), but Omicron had the most loss. Prior ...

Scientists say there is no evidence that the BA.5 version of the Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than measles, or that it has a basic reproduction number, or "R-naught" (R0), of 18.6 ...

A new version of omicron is dominant in the U.S. The coronavirus subvariant known as BA.5 accounted for nearly 54% of the country's Covid cases as of Saturday, according to the Centers for Disease ...

The current wave of COVID-19 highlights a particularly high risk of reinfection by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. Why is this? A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University ...