NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with Harvard epidemiologist Bill Hanage about what scientists know about the new omicron COVID-19 variant.

There are three possibilities, according to Trevor Bedford, a professor of biostatistics, bioinformatics and epidemiology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle: Omicron could ...

The Omicron variant, which is spreading far faster than previous versions of the coronavirus, is not likely to help countries achieve so-called herd immunity against COVID-19, in which enough ...

Preliminary scientific report. Christiana Kartsonaki, et al. (2022). An international observational study to assess the impact of the Omicron variant emergence on the clinical epidemiology of ...

N early 60% of people in the United States, including 3 in 4 children, have now been infected with Omicron or another coronavirus variant, data released Tuesday show.. The new findings, which go ...

Justin Lessler, an epidemiology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ... “It’s possible, and I sincerely hope that after omicron we’re in that zone.

Preliminary epidemiology ... “Omicron has a few more mutations than beta at key places, so it could be that the 3 rd (unmatched) dose will do a bit worse than it did against Beta.

The fast-moving Omicron variant is on the wane. More than half the states in the US appear to have passed a peak in cases, and global modeling predicts the wave will wash through most of the world ...

Omicron and its growing family of subvariants has left Americans wondering whether they have enough immunity to protect against the ever-changing virus. Two subvariants — BA.4 And BA.5 — are ...

TASS reported that the public health watchdog said the Omicron variant was detected as a result of genome-wide sequencing conducted by the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology that’s run ...

A patient infected with Covid-19 from Kaski district died while receiving treatment at Pokhara-based Charak Memorial Hospital ...