The omicron wave blew case rates and hospitalizations to new national records as it hit the Northeast in January. But it has already turned elsewhere. The omicron variant pushed the nation’s ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. From the U.S. to Germany and Saudi Arabia to Australia, the Covid-19 omicron variant has spread to dozens of countries globally. Much remains unknown ...

In about a month it will be the first anniversary of when the omicron variant of COVID-19 shook governments and public health services around the world. Since then, omicron has had many subvariants, ...

The omicron wave continues to infect people across the United States, but the latest trend data continues to show signs of improvement in the Northeast for both cases and hospitalizations. Nationally, ...

In November, a new coronavirus variant took the world by storm. Omicron has since caused an unprecedented wave of infections, striking about 90 million people in just 10 weeks. That’s more COVID-19 ...

With holiday travel behind us and workers returning to offices this week, a rapidly spreading subvariant of COVID-19 has public health officials concerned about a possible winter wave. According to ...

Researchers used county health data to compare the delta and omicron variants of COVID-19. Researchers found that the highly infectious omicron variant spread more quickly in urban, populated areas ...

Since coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first arose, it has spread to nearly every country worldwide, and many governments were forced to enact costly and restrictive measures to limit the spread of ...

This is the second in a series on the Omicron variants. Scientific progress in understanding Omicron has been remarkably swift since its discovery in late November of last year. The newest paper from ...