variants

20H / 501Y.V2.VOC 202012/02.B.1.351.Those were the charming names that scientists had suggested for a new variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa. The intertwined sequences of letters, numbers, and dots are of great…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, selected as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during an event at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, December 8, 2020.Susan Walsh | APThe decline in Covid-19 cases…

Dr. Peter Hotez told CNBC's "The News with Shepard Smith" that people in the US shouldn't get complacent about dropping Covid cases, especially in the face of new reports of a new variant, B.1.526, hitting New York spread."We're all…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesNew, highly transmissible variants of Covid-19 "may" "reverse" the nation's control of the pandemic and could undermine "all…

When lawmakers asked billions of dollars to fund the country's efforts to prosecute coronavirus variants, the Biden government on Wednesday announced a new effort to move that work forward, pledging nearly $ 200 million to address the…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, selected as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during an event at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, December 8, 2020.Susan Walsh | APThe United States needs to deploy…

While Americans are excited to see variants that were first distributed in the UK and South Africa in the US, scientists are finding a number of new variants that originated here. What is even more worrying is that many of these flavors…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented comprehensive new guidelines on Friday on how schools can be safely reopened for personal learning despite the spread of the coronavirus and highly contagious new variants.The…

Chancellor Angela Merkel wears a protective face mask when leaving the country after speaking to the media at her annual summer press conference in Berlin on August 28, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency |…

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, told CNBC's "The News with Shepard Smith" that she expects Covid infections to rise further as the new variants of the virus emerge in the US "If…