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What is known about XBB.1.5, a new and highly transmissible COVID-19
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What is known about XBB.1.5, a new and highly transmissible COVID-19

Despite intensive public health efforts to grind the COVID-19 pandemic to a halt, the recent emergence of the highly transmissible, extensively drug-resistant and profoundly immune system-evading XBB.1.5 SARS-CoV-2 subvariant is putting the global community on edge. What is XBB.1.5?In the naming convention for SARS-CoV-2 lineages, the prefix “X” denotes a pedigree that arose through genetic...

Flu, RSV cases combine with COVID-19 “Tridemic”
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Flu, RSV cases combine with COVID-19 “Tridemic”

Many Long Island and New York City residents are unwilling to get vaccinated or adjust their holiday plans amid a “tridemic” of Covid-19, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), results from a new poll suggest. Less than two-thirds of the poll respondents have received a flu shot or a Covid-19 booster shot this season....

Covid Death is Increasing Again
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Covid Death is Increasing Again

COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are increasing again as the very contagious BA.5 variant spreads across the country, with nearly 500 deaths reported each day. After 2 months of daily death numbers rarely climbing above 400, the average has recently grown to about 450 deaths per day, according to NPR. Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and intensive...

What To Know About Rapid Covid Test
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What To Know About Rapid Covid Test

COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, and many have been a victim to it despite following all the SOPs and doing everything they could. Despite it being almost two years since the virus’s first outbreak in Wuhan, China; it is strange that many of us still do not have an idea as to how...

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