Updated Covid boosters cut the infection risk from XBB.1.5 subvariant by nearly half, CDC finds The report provides the first ...

CDC data shows the bivalent COVID vaccines protect against the omicron variant known as XBB and its subvariant XBB.1.5.

XBB.1.5 is a spinoff of XBB, a subvariant of omicron that health officials worldwide have been warning about since the fall.

The latest COVID variant of concern, XBB.1.5, continues to rise but still ... Some 27.6% of new cases nationwide are linked to the variant, the CDC currently projects, with a prediction interval ...

In a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a single bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster ...

The CDC has published real-world data showing the omicron booster cuts the risk of mid illness from the fast spreading XBB ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that the updated bivalent COVID-19 vaccines do ...

The CDC has lowered its estimate of omicron subvariant XBB.1.5's prevalence in the U.S., now saying the highly transmissible strain accounts for about 28 percent of COVID-19 cases. The CDC first ...

However, the XBB.1.5 subvariant comprised 27.6% of sequenced COVID cases nationally for the week ending Jan. 7, 2023 — compared with 18.3% for the week ending Dec. 31, the CDC said on Friday.

According to Bernadette Boden Albala, MPH, Dr.P.H., director and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine’s ...

A booster dose provided at least 3 months of protection against symptomatic XBB and XBB.1.5 infections in seniors who had ...