Heading into the fall and winter, health officials and the public alike are better equipped to combat COVID-19 than at any point since the pandemic began in 2019, thanks mainly to a stronger wall of ...

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is rising to prominence in the U.S. as winter illness season approaches its peak: JN.1, yet another descendent of Omicron. JN.1 was first detected in ...

Editor's note: This story was first published on Aug. 14, 2024, and has been updated to reflect the Food and Drug Administration's approval of updated vaccines. If there’s one thing that’s predictable ...

A troubling new COVID subvariant is on the rise just in time for the holidays, officials have warned. The JN.1 subvariant — which stems from the Omicron variant that surged in early 2022 — is “rapidly ...

A recent study published in the journal Science discussed variant-adapted boosters for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 ...