A new COVID-19 variant called "Stratus" has been circulating in Oklahoma, and the state's positive test rate has been higher than the national average during the summer months. Stratus is the ...

A new COVID-19 variant called Stratus is rapidly spreading worldwide, distinguished by one telltale early symptom that sets it apart from other strains. The emerging strain appears in two forms: XFG ...

A new COVID-19 variant is rapidly spreading across the United States, bringing with it a concerning set of symptoms that include persistent chest pain and an inability to stay awake. The XFG variant, ...

Fair Haven Community Health Care distributed Covid vaccines and flu shots on October 5, 2023. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story is part of CT Mirror Explains, an ongoing effort to distill ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Pfizer and BioNTech say if a variant that evades the vaccine emerges, they would be ready to produce a tailor-made shot against that new variant within about 100 days. The companies ...

Omicron, the newest coronavirus variant, is also the quickest to be labeled a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of ...

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks at a press conference at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. (WHO photo) The World Health Organization declared ...

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced an official name of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other countries: COVID-19. "Under agreed ...

GENEVA -- The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a news briefing in Geneva ...