Flu was again worse than covid this winter. Is that pattern here to stay?

Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is ...
WTVD

Vulnerability to different mutations of COVID-19 varies person to person, study finds

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- As new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge, a new study is giving insight into how COVID-19 surveillance programs can be used to design more effective annual vaccine boosters. "Now ...
Journalism in the Americas

Coronavirus Mutation May Have Made It More Contagious

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Is the mu variant worse than delta? What to know about COVID-19 mutations

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the COVID-19 delta variant as one of its "variants of concern" (VOCs) on June 15. According to the CDC, VOCs can be more contagious, more ...
technologynetworks

Mutation of Coronavirus Is Significantly Increasing Its Ability To Infect

A tiny genetic mutation in the SARS coronavirus 2 variant circulating throughout Europe and the United States significantly increases the virus’ ability to infect cells, lab experiments performed at ...
lex18

COVID-19 vaccine efficacy could depend on virus' mutation rate

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, researchers say it is important to track how the coronavirus mutates because it could affect the efficacy of a vaccine. Like all living cells, viruses evolve their ...
abc7NY

Duke researchers help discover gene mutation that spreads the coronavirus faster

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University's School of Medicine helped discover a new strain of coronavirus. Dr. David Montefiori, a professor of surgery who also serves as Director of the ...

Is Covid a thing of the past? Flu is back to being the most common winter ailment

Covid has continued to mutate and spread since the World Health Organization declared an end to the public health emergency ...
KTNV Las Vegas

Study: Mutation causing COVID-19 to be more contagious

A worldwide study of the coronavirus released in the journal Cell indicates that the dominant strand of COVID-19 is causing the virus to spread faster. But the study’s authors said that even though ...
KTNV Las Vegas

Searching for new strains, researchers hunt COVID-19 mutations

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Where biology meets technology, researchers are on the hunt for mutations of COVID-19. The Microbial Genome Sequencing Center, also known as MiGS, is one of several in the country ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Virginia researchers warn of mutations after finding COVID-19 virus widespread in wildlife

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) – A study by ...