New year, new variant. As 2022 gets under way, omicron, a fast-moving version of the virus that causes COVID-19, is well into its march across the world. As of January 11, a record-breaking total of ...

NEW YORK -- This holiday season held promise for Americans, many of whom spent Christmas 2020 in quarantine or away from loved ones due to a nasty winter COVID-19 surge. Yet in the last week or so, ...

There is a growing debate on whether people testing for omicron should swab their throats. Most people in the U.S. have been doing COVID-19 rapid tests with nasal swabs. That is what the Food and Drug ...

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A number of Illinois-based COVID testing companies are now under investigation by state authorities. Meanwhile, public health experts are monitoring a new subvariant of omicron, but how worried should ...