You’ve certainly heard of the delta variant of the coronavirus, but what is the mu variant that is been in the news lately? Mu is a version of the coronavirus that ...

News: Delta variant surge in Australia prompts Hong Kong expert to suggest raising its Covid-19 risk level, but government adviser says move is unnecessary A recent surge of Delta variant ...

A certain mutation in the COVID-19 Delta variant causes infected cells to form disruptive chunks in the lungs and leads to more serious symptoms of the disease, a research team said. If the cells ...

The original strain of the virus was displaced by the Alpha variant. Then we had Beta, then Delta and then Omicron. KP.2 is ...

As the Delta variant sweeps the globe, scientists are learning more about why new versions of the coronavirus spread faster, and what this could mean for vaccine efforts. The spike protein ...

Cases and hospitalizations related to the Omicron variant may be falling in the United States, but it is a different story in South Korea. COVID-19 infections there remained above 50,000..

And because the delta variant, first identified in India, can spread among vaccinated people, that extra layer of protection for recovered patients is probably helpful (SN: 7/30/21). Sign up for e ...

Researchers in Japan are calling for new vaccines to be developed to protect the public from breakthrough variants of the novel coronavirus, such as the highly contagious Delta strain that comes ...

The omicron relative now dominant in the U.S. is called XEC, which accounted for 45% of variants circulating nationally in the two-week period ending Dec. 21, the CDC said. Minnesota sees COVID-19 ...