The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K that’s behind early surges in…
Read more A new virus variant and lagging vaccinations may mean the US is in for a severe flu seasonCOVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation — according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
Read more COVID surges nationwide with highest rates in Southwest as students return to schoolAs the United States enters respiratory virus season and health officials roll out updated COVID-19 vaccines, a new COVID variant HV.1 has emerged and is currently sweeping the…
Read more A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptomsSince Omicron swept across the globe in 2021, the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 has moved at a slower and more predictable pace. New variants of interest have come and…
Read more How Bad Could BA.2.86 Get?The World Health Organization has upgraded COVID-19 variant EG.5 to a variant of interest, or VOI, from a variant under monitoring, or VUM, as it continues to become…
Read more WHO names Eris a COVID variant of interest. Here’s what you need to know.A new variant of COVID-19 dubbed EG.5 has become dominant in the U.S., according to projections made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although a shortage…
Read more New ‘Eris’ COVID variant is dominant in the U.S., but a shortage of data is making it hard to trackIn COVID terms, the middle of last autumn looked a lot like this one. After a rough summer, SARS-CoV-2 infections were down; hospitalizations and deaths were in a…
Read more Will We Get Omicron’d Again?The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a new COVID variant dubbed BQ.1 and a descendant called BQ.1.1 have gained traction in the U.S., accounting for 11.4%…
Read more CDC identifies new COVID variants that accounted for 11.4% of new cases in week ending Oct. 15
