The Cuban Ministry of Public Health's National Director of Epidemiology, Dr. Francisco Durán García, refuted claims on ...

This shift gave rise to highly genetically diverse subvariants of omicron, such as XBB and JN.1. "This virus is here to stay and will continue to reinfect us," Chemaitelly said. "Regular vaccine ...

But the evolution of the virus has not stopped," Bloom says. But all of the meaningful new viral offspring have been descendants of omicron. So instead of getting new Greek letter names, the omicron ...

XBB.1.6 and JN.1. Each new member of this menagerie of mutants just keeps finding new ways to try to get around the human immune system, enabling the virus to infect more than 700 million people ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 ... that remains effective against SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron XBB.1.5. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National ...