Erin Marie In an effort to keep up with the emergence of new COVID-19 strains, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a press release on August 31, that they... read more →
Air travel is pretty much back to normal now for U.S. citizens. There are no pre-departure testing requirements for any travelers, and Americans arriving from abroad do not need to show proof... read more →
Damian McNamara People who get reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19 have more health risks with each round of reinfection, a large national database study reveals. Researchers saw worse... read more →
Alice Park On June 28, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted 19 to 2 to change the vaccines that have been used... read more →
Gitanjali Poonia Omicron variants are driving new infections across the world, proving to evade antibodies. © Illustration by Alex Cochran, Deseret NewsIllustration of the omicron variant. Why it matters: Preliminary research from... read more →
There's a new omicron subvariant taking over: BA.5. Scientists expect it will soon be responsible for most COVID-19 infections. But how dangerous is it? And what protection can vaccines offer?... read more →
Andrea McCollum, the poxvirus epidemiology team lead in the CDC’s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology, had many answers. Do we know how efficient monkeypox virus is at transmitting... read more →
This electron microscopic image depicts a monkeypox virion.CDC/ CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH Monkeypox appears to have exploded out of nowhere in the past two weeks, spreading across Europe, the Americas, and... read more →
BA.2.12.1 -- a highly contagious sub lineage of the BA.2 omicron subvariant that now accounts for 57.9% of all cases, according to CDC estimates. Monitoring Variant Proportions SARS-CoV-2, the virus... read more →
A new tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes the process of determining what to do with your COVID-19 exposure or possible symptoms much easier. The tool,... read more →
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