The COVID-19 subvariant JN.1 is rapidly surging across the U.S., according to just-released projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Based on the available but limited data, JN ...

A new COVID-19 strain has emerged that appears likely to stick around in the U.S. through the holiday season. JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday classified the JN.1 variant of the coronavirus as a “variant of interest” but said there wasn’t much of a threat to public health. “Based on the ...

Early data from hospitals suggests the latest COVID variant, known as JN.1, is not leading to more severe disease, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Monday, as the agency has ...

COVID cases are on the rise again. The season for flu, RSV, cold and COVID cases is well underway and, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the rates of infection have been on a steady ...

A Food and Drug Administration expert panel voted Wednesday to manufacture new COVID-19 vaccines to specifically target the JN.1 variant lineage—which makes up the most dominant strains circulating in ...

In early November 2023, the JN.1 variant caused less than 5% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. Now it is estimated to cause more than 60% of them. Virologists including Andy Pekosz, a professor in the ...

JN.1 makes up an estimated 61.6% of COVID cases, CDC data shows. A variant that has been circulating in the U.S. for the last couple of months currently makes up a majority of COVID-19 cases in the ...

A panel of health experts convened this week to decide which vaccine the U.S. should use against COVID-19 this fall. The federal advisory group decided on Wednesday the new vaccine should focus on the ...

As of Friday, CDC data estimates indicate that the quickly spreading variant is now causing almost half of infections nationwide, when just days ago it was estimated that JN.1 caused only about 20% of ...

Hospitals and emergency rooms could be forced to ration care by the end of this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday, saying recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza ...

The World Health Organization said it is tracking a new coronavirus “variant of interest” called JN.1, an offshoot of the highly mutated “Pirola” strain that is spreading rapidly around the world and ...