Health authorities around the world are finally getting a clearer picture of the nature of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and there’s both good news and bad news: the good news is that this form of the virus is less likely to cause a case of the illnessread more
The first major study of the effects of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been released by South Africa’s largest private health insurer, showing that while the variant seems to be causing milder symptoms in the country’s young people, vaccinations appear to be less effective against the new strain, a strain thatread more
A new coronavirus variant has emerged in India that has three genetic mutations that could make the virus both more deadly and transmissible. Although this new variant, called B.1.617, is still under investigation, it appears to be the product of a number of mutations, with three of its fifteen known mutationsread more
The rollout of the world’s COVID-19 vaccines is proving largely effective against the virus. We have our work cut out for us, however, in the face of COVID-19 variants that began to emerge last fall. An examination of the molecular structure of these variants has unlocked the secret to theread more