COVID-19 cases in Florida continue to remain up as a summer wave sweeps across the country. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has discovered a new COVID-19 variant, BA.2.86, ...

In a recent research paper uploaded to the bioRxiv preprint* server, researchers evaluated the virological characteristics of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) ...

A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body’s immune defenses is capturing the attention of virologists and health officials. While only ...

Preliminary testing of wastewater in the United States has detected the new highly mutated coronavirus variant BA.2.86, according to a risk assessment posted Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease ...

As the United States enters the thick of respiratory virus season, a highly mutated COVID-19 variant called BA.2.86 is spreading and causing an increasing proportion of cases across the country.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in ...

A COVID-19 variant once considered rare has tripled in U.S. cases in the past two weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mutated strain, called BA.2.86, accounts for ...

COVID-19 isn’t quite done with the world yet. Small surges of cases in the U.S., as well as upticks in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the summer, and new variants that weren’t around even three months ...

The newest COVID-19 variant isn't as scary as it seemed at first and fall booster shots should protect against it and all the other currently circulating variants, new data suggests. In a clinical ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The new COVID variant, BA.2.86, first appeared in the United States in August. New lab experiments show it could be less contagious than experts initially thought. “What you ...