Similar to the flu, health experts say the best defense against COVID is staying up to date with the most recent vaccine. But some variants hit harder than others, especially in children, older adults ...

During acute COVID-19 infections, children exhibit plasma signatures similar to those observed in adults with severe COVID-19, which contain markers associated with long-term cardiovascular risk.

Central Texas doctor's offices and care centers have noticed the annual summer COVID-19 spike in cases has been happening in the past few weeks. It could be happening with new variants making their ...

During the first 30 months of the COVID-19 pandemic — from March 2020 through August 2022 — serious and potentially preventable illnesses or deaths among children in Ontario, Canada, did not ...

Infections in children tend to be less serious than in adults and "most children with COVID-19 have mild symptoms or have no symptoms at all," according to the CDC.

N.B.1.8.1 is the current dominant variant in the United States, accounting for 43% of all new Covid cases, according to the CDC. It’s an offshoot of the XVD.1.5.1 strain, a descendant of the ...