UNIONDALE, Nassau County (WABC) -- Hundreds lined up in their cars as Nassau County kicked off the distribution of 20,000 free at-home test kits on Thursday. County Executive Laura Curran was there to ...

Americans can go online and in less than a minute, order a set of four, free at-home test kits for COVID-19 through the U.S. Postal Service. The federal initiative began Tuesday — a day earlier than ...

With the COVID-19 omicron variant expected to be detected in the U.S. soon, public health labs are ramping up testing efforts and prioritizing sequencing of positive samples with an “s-gene dropout,” ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The new wave of COVID-19 infections continues to rise shattering record highs, set at the peak of last winter's surge. New daily cases have more than doubled over the last two weeks ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers investigated the infectivity, fusogenicity, and immune evasive potential of two novel Omicron subvariants – BA.2.86 and FLip. They used ...

The coronavirus has come a long way since 2020. While the days of sanitizing Amazon packages and standing six feet apart may feel like they’re behind us (and they very well may be), the SARS-Co-V-2 ...

A new variant, XEC, is emerging in the United States, according to a tracker on the Center for Disease Control's website. The KP.3.1.1 variant, part of the Omicron family, has been the strain ...

The coronavirus has come a long way since 2020. While the days of sanitizing Amazon packages and standing six feet apart may feel like they’re behind us (and they very well may be), the SARS-Co-V-2 ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...

A map has revealed how Covid-19 cases are rising nationwide, fueled by the Stratus variant, which is an emerging offshoot of the Omicron variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...