I am deeply troubled by the growing distrust of science in our society, just at the time when its insights are most needed.

The event featured food trucks and a live DJ along with voter registration forms for community members.

Pfizer and BioNTech said on Friday that a committee from the European Medicine Agency recommended marketing authorization for its Omicron adapted vaccine to prevent Covid-19, meaning the vaccine is ...

KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another ...

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By mid-September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the Omicron subvariant KP.3.1.1 accounted for most COVID-19 cases. KP.3.1.1 is a member of a group of variants nicknamed ...

Scientists comment on the new COVID-19 variant, XEC. Prof Francois Balloux, Professor of Computational Systems Biology and Director, UCL Genetics Institute, UCL, said: What is XEC?

Omicron has been labelled "of concern" by the ... the vaccines have continued to prevent serious disease as we've moved through Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta," he said. "At least from a speculative ...

such as alpha and delta, that have caused massive waves of infection. The latest ones experts are concerned about - BA.4 and BA.5 - are very closely related to the Omicron variant behind last ...

Currently available COVID vaccines target slightly different subvariants. The updated mRNA shots aimed at KP.2 from ...

Scientists first recognized omicron thanks to its distinctive combination of more than 50 mutations. Some of them were carried by earlier variants such as alpha and beta. Read more here.

It’s not a new strain requiring another Greek letter designation, and it hasn't been shown to cause more severe disease compared to other Omicron subvariants. However, with colder months ...