Current data indicates that even if you are exposed to omicron or BA.2, being up to date with your COVID-19 vaccines and boosters will protect you and prevent ...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, several coronavirus variants have emerged as the virus, SARS-CoV-2, continues to mutate and evolve. Many of these ...
Yes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — has mutated (changed), resulting in variants of the virus. ...
COVID-19 symptoms include: Cough; Fever or chills; Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing; Muscle or body aches; Sore throat; New loss of taste or smell; ...
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads primarily from person to person through respiratory droplets. This can happen when someone with the virus ...
The pneumonia that COVID-19 causes tends to take hold in both lungs. Air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid, limiting their ability to take in oxygen and ...
COVID-19 precautions such as mask-wearing, physical distancing, hand hygiene and self-monitoring for coronavirus symptoms are effective in limiting infection and ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine views both FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines as highly effective at preventing serious disease, hospitalization and death from COVID-19. ...
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