While COVID rates remain low, a new variant called Cicada has made its way into Minnesota. Public Health Sanitarian for Faribault and Martin County Health and Human Services Tim Langer said this discovery was made through wastewater monitoring.

A new COVID-19 variant is now being monitored by the CDC, and East Texas health officials say cases are starting to rise. Leaders with the Northeast Texas Public Health District say the variant—part

A heavily mutated offshoot of the Omicron lineage has now been detected globally, the CDC reports.

As evidence mounts that the omicron variant is less deadly than prior COVID-19 strains, one oft-cited explanation is that viruses always evolve to become less virulent over time. The problem, experts say, is that this theory has been soundly debunked.

NEWARK, Calif. (KGO) -- The race is underway to produce and use the omicron variant's DNA to determine how well existing vaccines work against it, ahead of the first case surfacing in the U.S. The Bay Area is playing a key role in that. ATUM in Newark was ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden laid out what his administration is doing to combat the emergence of the omicron variant and he encouraged the American people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible. “Sooner or later, we’re ...

The nickname “Cicada” reflects how the variant seemed to reemerge after a long lull.