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

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 ...

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 ...

Until omicron came along, delta was the most contagious variant of the virus, and CDC studies suggested that it may be more likely to result in hospitalization in the unvaccinated than other strains.

Misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic – and vaccines to fight it – existed long before the omicron variant arrived to the United States, but it appears to be fueling new and old claims.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...