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Changes are being made to Illinois' COVID requirements following a recent announcement from Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The shift comes as health officials urge those...

The highly contagious BA.5 variant is believed to be behind the word that the number of weekly COVID-19 deaths reported in Los Angeles County has doubled over the last month.

With highly contagious new variants in circulation, anyone who hasn’t yet gotten sick can probably thank randomness or genetics more than behavior.

As Beijing's stringent no-tolerance viral campaign continued, hundreds and thousands of people were placed under lockdown in a small Chinese city on Tuesday after just one case of COVID-19 was found.

Health professionals have said anecdotally that BA.5 causes loss of smell more than other recent variants. More data is needed to confirm the reports.

With new COVID variants and subvariants behind many positive cases in Chicago and other parts of the country, many are wondering if symptoms are shifting with...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday granted an emergency use authorization...

Are COVID symptoms changing with the newer variants? Chicago's top doctor explained a noticeable shift happening as omicron subvariants continue to spread....

The highly infectious and immune-resistant Omicron BA.5 subvariant is now dominant throughout much of the world and is fueling yet another wave of infections, hospitalizations, debilitation with Long COVID and deaths.

As COVID-19 variants become more prevalent and more transmissible, experts are repeatedly...