For young, healthy people who may be wondering, “do I need a COVID booster at all?”, having one annually is sensible.

Endocrinologist Olga Duchon, MD, was fatally shot over the weekend in suburban Chicago less than 2 hours after giving a talk ...

The absolute number of COVID-19 deaths was three times higher than those from flu, but the case-fatality ratio was comparable ...

Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has approved a new COVID booster by Pfizer targeting the JN.1 sub-variant of Omicron. Despite evolving variants, boosters remain crucial, especially for ...

Pfizer and partner BioNTech have started their clinical trial of a new version of their COVID-19 vaccine that has been specifically designed to protect against the Omicron variant. The trial in ...

"At the height of the Omicron wave, we still saw a lot of children being hospitalized," Jennifer Nayak, MD, associate ...

The new vaccines are nearly identical to their predecessors, except that they now target JN.1-lineage variants of omicron rather than the XBB.1.5 omicron variant. This is akin to a strain change ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons. Here we answer common questions about the latest ...