Update 6/7/2022 2:00 pm ET: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its prevalence estimates for coronavirus variants Tuesday and has now provided separate estimates for omicron ...

The BA.2.12.1 variant of COVID-19 makes up about 37% of new coronavirus cases across the country, according to the latest data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The growth of BA.2.12 ...

The latest COVID-19 variant – dubbed BA.2.12.1 – has been linked to 43% of total coronavirus cases in the U.S., a jump from 7% in April. And, as more data about the variant becomes known, a pattern in ...

New Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12 is more transmissible than BA.2 and will need to be closely monitored for spread and hospitalisation rates, top public health experts told TOI on Thursday. The experts ...

The omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 is poised to become dominant in the US, currently accounting for an estimated 36.5 percent of all US SARS-CoV-2 cases, according to the latest estimates released ...

A new subvariant of Omicron is set to become the dominant variant of COVID-19 in the U.S. soon. BA.2.12.1 is currently responsible for 42.6% of COVID-19 cases in the country, according to data from ...

As compared with BA.2, the BA.2.12.1 subvariant has substitutions L452Q and S704L in its spike protein, and both BA.4 and BA.5 have additional changes. Substitutions L452Q, L452R, and F486V are in the ...

Panel A shows the lineage of mutations that have been identified in the omicron BA.1, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, and BA.4 or BA.5 subvariants of SARS-CoV-2, as compared with the reference WA1/2020 isolate. BA.4 ...

Two months is all it took. In mid-March, Omicron BA.2.12.1 and sister subvariant BA.2.12.2 made up only 1.5% of newly-sequenced positive tests in the U.S. Today, they comprise 57.9% of all new ...

In the past few weeks, everyone from late night hosts to country stars to comedians to many at the White House, including Vice President Kamala Harris, has contracted Covid. The uptick in boldfaced ...

A recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server demonstrated that the latest severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages evade immunity imparted by the prior ...