A new strain of COVID is rising in California with clusters detected in San Francisco and Kern County. The “Cicada” strain is a highly mutated subvariant that has recently gained traction in ...

The timing of the spread of the subvariant, nicknamed "Cicada," underscores that COVID has lately morphed into more of a summer disease in California. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A highly ...

A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer. The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed "cicada," comes ...

A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published after being blocked from a government health journal ...

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 - strokes, heart attacks, and ...