I believe it's here,” University at Buffalo biochemist Jennifer Surtees said about Omicron in Western New York on Saturday, “and we just need to get the sequence data to back ...

Breakthrough infections (infections after vaccination) by new variants of SARS-CoV-2 are common, despite the extensive immunization programs against SARS-CoV-2. Recent research suggests that human ...

Western New York’s Covid-19 case count, which shot above 3,500 in mid-January, has plunged below 800. Hospitalizations are ...

A new and potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant first identified by South African scientists has prompted a fresh round of travel restrictions across the world and raised concern about ...

A new study investigates how T cells can help in the fight against Omicron. Biwa Studio/Getty Images Alongside antibodies, T cells are a key player in the immune response against pathogens. The ...

It has been 4 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 has yet to be eradicated and new variants are continuously emerging. Despite the extensive immunization programs, breakthrough ...

Knowledge of Omicron first emerged in late November 2021, and the World Health Organization (WHO) quickly classified the strain of coronavirus as a "Variant of Concern." Omicron quickly spread across ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...

This is a column by Mark Murphy, a Savannah physician and author. He is a regular contributor to the Savannah Morning News. A few weeks ago, after nearly two years of doom and gloom, I finally wrote ...