Omicron Variant

This time of year is when doctors usually recommend getting a flu shot, but this year, there is also a push for people to get an updated COVID-19 booster. It comes as a newly released study found COVID-19 vaccinations have potentially saved hundreds of thousands of lives nationwide. With COVID-19 vaccinations tailored for Omicron variants now available, public health experts…

All five boroughs of New York City are back in the CDC’s high-risk category for COVID community spread as of the agency’s Friday update, a reflection of the increasingly infectious national climate as the “worst version” of omicron yet holds its dominance. Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island had all been in the CDC high-risk category for...

Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection.

Coachella was mostly outdoors, but the festival did not require masks or vaccination.

This past December through February, experts say roughly three in five people in the United States had been infected.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it would be appealing a ruling which lifted the travel face mask mandate, after the CDC determined masks continue to be necessary for the public good.

New York City’s health commissioner is warning the COVID-19 risk level will likely rise from “low” to “medium” in the next few days, moving the needle for the first time since January’s omicron wave. Infection numbers in the city have steadily increased over the past 45 days, which has brought the positivity rate to nearly 4.5% — and in some…

Omicron BA.2, also known as “stealth omicron,” has been the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. since March 2022.

The CDC announced Wednesday that it was extending the national mask requirement for public transportation systems through May 3 as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases in parts of the country.

One week after attending a reported “super-spreader” event in Washington, D.C., Mayor Eric Adams has tested positive for COVID-19 after waking up “with a raspy voice,” his press secretary said Sunday. The mayor of New York City is the latest high-profile politician to contract the virus after attending a dinner at the Gridiron Club last weekend in the nation’s...