Abundant, free, rapid tests, many experts argue, are vitally important for mitigating what we know is fast becoming an endemic virus — Covid-19. But that is easier said than done. Between supply ...

NEW YORK -- This holiday season held promise for Americans, many of whom spent Christmas 2020 in quarantine or away from loved ones due to a nasty winter COVID-19 surge. Yet in the last week or so, ...

New year, new variant. As 2022 gets under way, omicron, a fast-moving version of the virus that causes COVID-19, is well into its march across the world. As of January 11, a record-breaking total of ...

As the Omicron surge drives infection rates to record highs, testing has emerged as an essential tool for limiting its spread. But over the last month, laboratories and manufacturers have struggled to ...

Public health officials say tests are being returned in 36 to 72 hours, on average The omicron variant is sending a crush of people to testing sites and pharmacies across the country as the disease ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with ...

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Yesenia Mata gives herself a COVID-19 test on Jan. 4, 2022, at Valley Shield COVID-19 Testing in Phoenix. The omicron variant is good at evading vaccines, so even if you've been vaccinated and boosted ...

The state is seeing record COVID-19 hospitalizations. As the highly contagious omicron variant drives up COVID-19 infections around the country, demand for testing has also soared, with long lines at ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - The fast-spreading Omicron variant has made us more reliant on rapid at-home antigen tests to tell us if we have COVID-19. But should we be swabbing our throats as well as our noses ...

As Omicron spreads, some experts are calling for a switch to saliva-based tests, which may detect infections days earlier than nasal swabs do. By Emily Anthes Jan. 20, 2022: This article was updated ...