The new "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants, including KP.2, are spreading in the United States. Will there be a summer surge? Experts discuss KP.2 transmission, symptoms, and vaccines.
Within the FLiRT family, one variant in particular has risen to prominence: KP.2, which accounted for about 25% of new ...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition, which meets about every 6 ...
A study from Japan, awaiting peer review, suggests that KP.2 may be less infectious than its predecessor JN.1. Despite this, ...
“CDC Nowcast projections estimate a quickly emerging Omicron JN.1 descendant, KP.2 (also called JN.1.11.1.2), to account for ...
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Omicron JN.1 became the dominant COVID strain in ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released new data addressing the link, or lack thereof, between the COVID-19 vaccine and sudden cardiac death in otherwise healthy ...
In some people, COVID-19 vaccines can lead to heart complications called myocarditis and pericarditis. Myocarditis is the swelling, also called inflammation, of the heart muscle. Pericarditis is the ...
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study has found that mRNA vaccines for the COVID-19 virus are not linked to cardiac death in younger adults. The study was conducted using Oregon ...
The updated vaccine targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron strain and is expected ... As of April 19, 22.8% of adults had received the newest COVID shot, according to CDC data; more than twice as many ...