Concern is rising about the COVID-19 variants BA.2.86 and EG.5 as the United States is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Now, the FDA has approved a new COVID-19 booster that targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant. Dr. Stuart…
Concern is rising about the COVID-19 variants BA.2.86 and EG.5 as the United States is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Now, the FDA has approved a new COVID-19 booster that targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant. Dr. Stuart…
Health officials are sounding alarms about a new and rapidly spreading COVID-19 subvariant. Editor-at-Large for Public Health at Kaiser Health News, epidemiologist at NYU, and CBS News Medical Contributor Dr. Celine Gounder explains how XBB.1.5 differs from its predecessors. #covid19…
The latest Omicron subvariant BA.5 is the most easily transmissible COVID-19 variant to date, able to evade previous immunity from COVID infection and vaccination. Dr. Dean Blumberg, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, explains why BA.5…