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Travelers, regardless of vaccination status, have been advised not to vacation on cruise ships amid the global rise in COVID-19 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A doctor in Maryland said he had to cancel potentially life-saving monoclonal antibody infusions for about 250 people over the last week after the federal government stopped distributing treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly because they aren't e

Some public places have a higher risk of airborne transmission than others, but there are measures business owners can take to improve the air quality in their premises and lower the risk of customers and staff becoming infected.

(StudyFinds.org) Losing your sense of smell might indicate that you have a mild case of COVID-19, according to a study published earlier this year. Statistics show that patients suffering moderate and severe cases of the infection are far less likely to e

The study is the most comprehensive analysis to date on the virus's distribution throughout the body.

As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge in Northeast Ohio, doctors are recommending wearing hospital-grade masks that are more effective at limiting spread of the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is changing the quarantine and isolation period for healthcare workers who are asymptomatic and test positive for COVID-19 from ten days to seven days.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized an antiviral drug that has shown to be highly effective at preventing hospitalizations due to COVID-19, making it a powerful tool that could bolster the shaky medical system facing an omicron wave.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky must now decide whether to accept the panel's recommendation.

The number is so enormous that we risk becoming numb to its implications.

Researchers from Nference, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based data analytics firm, found a piece of genetic code in Omicron that is present in the virus that can bring about a cold.

Moderna climbs on reports U.S. health officials are looking to fast-track omicron-targeted vaccines and drugs.

South African scientists are warning that the new omicron variant may be causing more reinfections among COVID-19 survivors than earlier virus mutants

The emergence of the omicron strain of the COVID-19 virus is raising new questions about the still undetermined origin of the coronavirus outbreak and whether it leaked from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan in 2019. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief Bide

The omicron variant, now present in at least 23 countries around the world, was probably incubated in the body of a person with an immune system battered by HIV or ... Click to Continue

BioNTech and Pfizer's established COVID-19 vaccine will likely offer strong protection against any severe disease from the new Omicron virus variant, BioNTech's Chief Executive told Reuters, even as the biotech firm protectively makes a bolt for a

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said on Tuesday it was evaluating the effectiveness of authorized COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron coronavirus variant and expects to have more information in the next few weeks.

The South African doctor who first alerted authorities to the presence of the COVID-19 omicron variant reported that it presents

"This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning, and preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection,

Cases of the new variant have been detected in South Africa, Botswana, and Hong Kong.