Pfizer and BioNTech’s Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine has received a positive recommendation from the European ...

The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, "Pfizer") and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, "BioNTech") today announced that the Committee for Medicinal ...

Exclusive: Lower levels of protective antibodies could leave the UK population vulnerable to a rapid spread of the XEC Covid ...

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...

Pfizer and BioNTech said on Friday that a committee from the European Medicine Agency recommended marketing authorization for its Omicron adapted vaccine to prevent Covid-19, meaning the vaccine is ...

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However, XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.

COVID symptoms can be mild, severe, or nonexistent, according to the CDC—and can appear as late as two weeks after you’ve ...

A newly detected Covid variant is sweeping through Europe, labelled as "more contagious" than some of the earlier strains.

sub-grandchildren of the original Omicron. So there is still going to be some level of protection there.” Symptoms of XEC are ...

For those wanting the home test kit, free rapid antigen tests will continue to be available through local public health units ...