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“The antibodies ingested through breast milk may provide a protective coating in the infants’ mouths and gastrointestinal tract.

Fewer precautions, recent holidays and subvariants have driven rise in cases but boosters, masks and other precautions are still effective

New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn’t spark surges in respiratory diseases

XBB.1.5 is the most highly transmissible version we've seen of the Covid-19 virus. It's also very good at evading immune defenses.

Child vaccination rates dipped into dangerous territory during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools were shuttered, and most doctors were only seeing emergency patients.

The former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese CDC, Zeng Guang, adds that high numbers of severe cases may persist even longer

A new study breaks down the quickly spreading variants’ common symptoms among 85 patients. Only three died.

For years, 94% to 95% of incoming kindergarteners were vaccinated against measles, tetanus and certain other diseases. But, the U.S. has begun to see a drop, with rates falling below 94% in the 2020-2021 and to about 93% in the 2021-2022 school year, according to a new U.S. government report.

LOS ANGELES — The latest omicron subvariant — perhaps the most infectious yet — has gained a foothold in California, a potentially problematic development given the possibility of a post-holiday spike.