WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden laid out what his administration is doing to combat the emergence of the omicron variant and he encouraged the American people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ...

On Friday, the World Health Organization categorized a new strain of COVID-19 that was recently detected in southern Africa as a "variant of concern." The WHO's Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus ...

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Class is back in session for another year, and that means new stationery, pumpkin spice everything in stores, and – albeit less welcome – the spread of respiratory viruses. Only a few months ago, we ...

The interior ward of the field hospital donated to the South African Ministry of Health by the United States Africa Command and erected in Maheking, in South Africa's Northwest Province, on Oct. 20, ...

WHO designates coronavirus variants as either variants of concern — meaning they look dangerous enough to bear close scrutiny and continual updates — or as variants of interest, or variants under ...

Mark Cameron was part of the rapid-response research team when the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak hit Toronto in the early 2000s. Now a faculty member in Population and Quantitative ...