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Health‘Kraken,’ the ‘most transmissible’ COVID variant yet, could spawn even more immune-evasive variants, new study says
By Erin PraterJanuary 6, 2023
HealthMeet the biology professor who named the surging ‘Kraken’ COVID variant. He has more to help make sense of Omicron’s ‘alphabet soup’
By Erin PraterJanuary 5, 2023
HealthMeet the ‘Kraken’ COVID variant—the dominant new Omicron ‘escape strain’ experts say is the most transmissible yet
By Eleanor Pringle and Erin PraterJanuary 5, 2023
HealthNew COVID variant ‘Kraken’ XBB.1.5 is on track to become dominant in the U.S., and experts are worried
By Erin PraterJanuary 4, 2023
HealthCOVID isn’t just infecting you—it could be reactivating viruses that have been dormant in your body for years
By Erin PraterDecember 26, 2022
HealthThe public health organization that forecast 1 million COVID deaths in China says a ‘tripledemic’ could push the death toll even higher: ‘They never had a Plan B’
By Erin PraterDecember 20, 2022
HealthIt’s not just you. Everyone really is sick this holiday season as the U.S. battles a ‘worst in a decade’ flu and rising COVID cases
By Erin PraterDecember 20, 2022
By Erin PraterDecember 17, 2022
HealthThe WHO just released a stark new warning about strep cases afflicting children around the world and warns countries to ‘be vigilant’
By Erin PraterDecember 15, 2022
HealthChina has a new strategy for keeping official COVID numbers down during its reopening: Stop counting many new infections
By Erin PraterDecember 14, 2022
HealthCOVID-19 global health emergency will hopefully end next year, WHO chief says. But ‘the burden of post-COVID condition is only likely to increase’
By Erin PraterDecember 14, 2022
HealthThe CDC finally put a number on how many lives long COVID has claimed: ‘It’s probably an undercount’
By Erin PraterDecember 14, 2022
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