Estimates show the variant accounts for over 51% of all new cases nationwide. A highly contagious variant of the novel coronavirus that was initially identified in India is now the dominant strain in ...

CEO Marianne De Backer emphasized Vir's progress in advancing its infectious disease and oncology programs. Key milestones include initiating the ECLIPSE Phase III registrational program for hepatitis ...

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"The rules have changed. We have a different epidemic now that we did in May." Adding more insight into the CDC’s updated mask guidance, newly published details of the Provincetown outbreak raise ...

The internal CDC document said the Delta variant was more transmissible than the viruses that cause MERS, SARS, Ebola, and the seasonal flu.

Prior COVID-19 vaccination did not stop the immune system from mounting a protective response to the Delta and Omicron strains, though new mutation-specific antibody production dipped slightly, ...