ORLANDO, Fla. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that two new omicron subvariants that appear to be more adept at dodging immunity make up more than half of the COVID-19 cases in ...
Recent analyses show that Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 more strongly suppress major histocompatibility complex class I expression than previous versions of the virus. Throughout the pandemic, the ...
In the first real-world test of vaccine boosters specially designed to protect against the Omicron variant, Israeli researchers have found that people 65 and older who got an updated jab were 81% less ...
Adults hospitalised with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant have a higher death rate than those hospitalised with seasonal influenza, even though Omicron is considered less virulent with lower case ...
The BA.2.75 sublineage of the B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may escape neutralizing antibodies. The BA.2.75 sublineage (primarily the BA.2 ...
Manal Mohammed is a senior lecturer of medical microbiology at the University of Westminster. Since the COVID variant Omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants.
On August 31, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech bivalent Covid-19 vaccines, each containing equal amounts of mRNA encoding the spike protein from ...