SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Preliminary data out of South Africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is. The South African Medical Research Council just reported this variant may ...

The impact of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on a largely unboosted US population entering the holiday season will create a "perfect storm" set to sweep health care across all regions of the US, an ...

U.S. health officials are on high alert and looking for any cases of the new omicron variant. Questions are also being raised if this new variant will overtake delta. Dr. Otto Yang, a leading ...

A new subvariant of Omicron is spreading rapidly in some parts of the world. This spinoff from the original Omicron variant, called BA.2, has been found in at least 49 countries, including the United ...

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, ...

UTICA, N.Y. (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – The World Health Organization (WHO) called the Omicron strain a variant of concern, and as it makes its way to the U.S. we spoke with Utica College Professor of Biology ...

Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall's delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising ...

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor and Virologist Andrew Pekosz discusses the discovery of an evolution of the omicron variant and looking forward to a time where masks will not ...