“A well-fitted N95 would be the highest quality filtering mask that you could wear,” she says. But “the best mask you can ...

As evidence mounts that the omicron variant is less deadly than prior COVID-19 strains, one oft-cited explanation is that viruses always evolve to become less virulent over time. The problem, experts ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Preliminary data out of South Africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is. The South African Medical Research Council just reported this variant may cause ...

UB researchers said they were not able to pinpoint exactly when the variant arrived in Western New York, but it has likely ...

The drug regulator has cleared Serum Institute to begin Phase III trials for a 2-in-1 covid-flu vaccine while simultaneously approving an Omicron-specific booster, marking a transition toward seasonal ...

I believe it's here,” University at Buffalo biochemist Jennifer Surtees said about Omicron in Western New York on Saturday, “and we just need to get the sequence data to back ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- With the push to get more people boosted and with COVID cases continuing to decline, there could soon be some different guidance when it comes to wearing masks across the country.

According to a study of more than 5.5 million adults aged 50 years or older, vaccination with the bivalent BA.1 mRNA booster ...

NEW YORK -- The use of some monoclonal antibody treatments against COVID is now being discouraged, and updated guidelines from the NIH COVID Treatment Panel say Regeneron and Eli Lilly's treatments ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials reported 6,664 new COVID cases and 28 related deaths Monday as the first omicron subvariant was detected in the state. There have been 2,920,971 total ...

Neutralizing antibody levels rose 37-fold one month after the booster was given. Moderna announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine booster increases antibody levels against the omicron variant within ...