As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly ...

No, there is no new evidence that Covid originated with a raccoon dog in a market in Wuhan. The public relations blitz that ...

A cheap new test using origami paper sensors can detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, much more quickly than current PCR ...

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Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine has received a positive recommendation from the European ...

Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a ...

Experts in infectious diseases agree with Bill Gates' concerns. They say another pandemic isn't a case of if, it's now a ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of ...

After COVID infection, prevalent metformin use is associated with a slightly lower incidence of death or postacute sequalae of SARS-CoV-2.

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...