By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Recent estimates published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show ...

Especially since the abolition of mandatory personal testing and all other coronavirus protection measures, wastewater ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the ...

A new variant of COVID called XEC — a combination of two Omicron subvariants — is spreading in the middle of flu season.

(Van Beusekom, 10/23) San Francisco Chronicle: As COVID XEC Variant Spreads, Bay Area Officials Urge Vaccines As winter approaches, health officials in the Bay Area are strongly encouraging residents ...

A new COVID-19 variant is spreading rapidly around the world, and experts predict it will become the dominant strain this ...

XEC has become the second most prevalent strain in the country, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), representing more than 1 in 10 cases. But ...

A panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to lower the recommended age for older adults to get their pneumococcal vaccine.

Everyone is sniffling and sneezing this time of year. But, how do you know exactly what ails you when the symptoms are all ...

Everyone is sniffling and sneezing this time of year. But how do you know exactly what ails you when the symptoms are all the ...

New preprint study shows COVID-19 variant XEC is expected to surpass KP.3.1.1 as most dominant circulating variant, with higher infectivity and immune evasion.

The CDC's Nowcast data tracker, which displays COVID-19 estimates and projections for two-week periods, reflected that the KP ...