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Topic: Variants

Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here?

Troy Farah
A doctor with the Saxony-Anhalt Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, takes a swab from a patient at the fever outpatient clinic in Halle/Saale. (Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Questions about the Pirola COVID variant

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

New round of COVID boosters approved

Troy Farah
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A member of the public poses for a photo in front of Tower Bridge whilst wearing a protective mask (Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

COVID's summer surge continues into fall

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Crowds of people walk along the pavement at Shibuya Crossing, one of the busiest intersections in the world, in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on April 5, 2023. (RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why are COVID names so confusing?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Highly-mutated Covid strain identified

Elizabeth Hlavinka
3D model of the novel Coronavirus (Getty Images)

New COVID mutant EG.5 driving up cases

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Man taking off his surgical mask (Getty Images/Andres Barrionuevo Lopez)

Premature Mission Accomplished on COVID?

Troy Farah
A deer stag, dog, rat and mink looking at COVID-19 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

COVID's worrying back-and-forth spread

Troy Farah
Surgical face mask with "BA.5" written on it, referring to the BA.5 variant of COVID-19 (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

What's BA.5 and why is it so contagious?

Nicole Karlis
Illustration based on a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (red) (Getty Images/JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

COVID variant overtakes its predecessors

Eric Schank
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Mutating virus variant (Getty Images/wildpixel)

How to prevent future Covid variants

Michael Rose - Undark
Family in protective face masks in airport during COVID-19 pandemic (Getty Images/ArtMarie)

Think the pandemic is over? Wake up

Heather Digby Parton
Scientist pipetting a sample of a new drug formula into a vial during a clinical trial with the infectious disease on the computer screen. (Getty Images)

Genomic surveillance in the COVID era

Alexander Sundermann, Lee Harrison - The Conversation
Scientists with surgical gloves holds two different Coronavirus of different color in the hand (Getty Images/Aitor Diago)

How contagious is omicron?

Suresh V. Kuchipudi - The Conversation
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Doctor holding a COVID-19 vaccine shot (Getty Images/franckreporter)

Does omicron mean we need a new vaccine?

Nicole Karlis
Model of Human Coronavirus, fractured (Getty Images/Alexandr Gnezdilov Light Painting)

What you need to know about omicron

Louis Jacobson - KFF Health News
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