Study: Early introduction and rise of the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in highly vaccinated university populations. Image Credit: Jon Bilous/Shutterstock There have been a three to five times ...

If the Omicron variant spreads widely ... have been implemented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the introduction and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States through travel.

The omicron variant gained an edge over delta ... meaning a surge in infection rates following a new variant's introduction. But while the next problem variant may easily spread and outwit the ...

Here, we introduce the Omicron family of variants. More detailed descriptions of each strain will follow this introduction. We have already described BA.1 in a previous story under the moniker of ...

But this re-introduction boosts antibody levels very high, Pillai said. A fraction of these numerous antibodies are cross-reactive — they bind to the similarly shaped-bumps on both omicron and ...

“With Omicron and its subvariants being the dominant ... before those novel strains jump to humans. “The introduction and further spread of SARS-CoV-2 in an animal population might result ...

BA.5 is causing more reinfection in people who already had COVID-19, including earlier versions of omicron. It's also evading immunity from the vaccines. The vaccines are still effective at ...

Omicron, as the World Health Organization called the variant, swiftly overtook other forms of the virus. It remains dominant now, on its second anniversary. In the two years since its emergence ...

The Omicron variant was identified in South Africa on 24 November 2021 and quickly began to dominate infections in the country. By 15 December, the number of new cases caused by Omicron had already ...

This week, the FDA and CDC authorized Pfizer and Moderna to start administering vaccine boosters that have been reengineered to specifically target the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants that caused ...