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Unlike other variants including Omicron and Delta, XE is a recombinant - meaning someone got infected with two Omicron subvariants simultaneously. A total of 637 cases of the new variant have been ...

Diabetes risk wasn't significantly higher when Delta or Omicron variants were predominant. Boosted individuals during Delta predominance had a 23% lower risk for new-onset diabetes. There was no ...

said a roughly 20 percent increase in the effective reproduction number is not as great as the difference between the Delta variant and the standard Omicron variant. But it still shows that BA.

The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, even though its symptoms are considered less severe than the Delta strain, is proving to have a higher fatality rate than ...