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Study showed that people who received two doses of either the Pfizer–BioNTech or Moderna mRNA-based vaccine enjoyed several months of substantial protection against symptomatic disease caused by either BA.1 or BA.2. The ‘stealth Omicron’,…

Sorrento scientists have perfected the expression of the spike protein to potentially improve the safety profile of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines by incorporating a furin cleavage site mutation to prevent leakage of S1 subunit into the blood…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID, responds to questions from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022 in…

As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping an eye on a highly transmissible subvariant known as BA.2. Although it doesn’t appear to have the capacity to drive a large new wave of infections, the variant could…

The antiviral therapies remdesivir, molnupiravir, and the active ingredient in Pfizer's Paxlovid pill (nirmatrelvir), remain effective in laboratory tests against the BA.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The BA.2…

Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesA more contagious subvariant of omicron, known as BA.2, is spreading across the globe and could soon become the dominant version of Covid-19.It's now the top variant in at least 18 countries and…

Concerns that BA.2 may be more severe than the original Omicron variant have been driven by a hamster study, but real-world data suggest the…

Ten laboratories currently are studying the clinical correlation of Omicron’s BA.2 sub-lineage and hospitalisations. Even when Covid cases from the Omicron variant are declining in India, experts are closely monitoring its BA.2 lineage and…

The WHO said while BA.2 is more tranmsissible than BA.1, the subvariant is not more severe. The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant is not only faster at spreading, but may also cause more severe disease, a lab study…

The BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron coronavirus variant is not only faster at spreading, but may also cause more severe disease, a lab study suggests. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings, recently posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv,…