Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Omicron-specific booster: Children as young as 6 months old are now eligible to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine. (Getty Images) ...

The omicron variant is a different actor in children than previous variants. It affects the upper airway, which puts young children, who have particularly narrow airways, in a more precarious position ...

This is a MedPage Today story.. A retrospective study revealed that hospital admission rates were far higher for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) than for the omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 or ...

Children as young as 6 months old can now receive the updated Covid vaccines that target the omicron variant. The FDA's decision to authorize the shots for the youngest kids comes as Covid infections ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA on Thursday expanded its emergency use authorization of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech’s omicron-targeting ...

Children who were infected with Covid-19 for the second time during the Omicron wave had more than double the risk of developing long Covid, according to a new study published in The Lancet Infectious ...

A new University at Buffalo study conducted at John R. Oishei Children's Hospital is one of the first to reveal that there were fewer cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) ...

Children were much more likely to suffer severe outcomes from COVID-19 caused by the Delta virus variant when compared to the Omicron variant, according to a new study. Researchers from Case Western ...

In a recent BMC Medicine journal study, researchers estimate the age-varying susceptibility to infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant. To this ...

Lin and colleagues (Sept. 22 issue) 1 report on the protection against hospitalization related to the B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in ...

A new study reveals that there were fewer cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the omicron wave of the pandemic than the delta wave. A new University at Buffalo study ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new University at Buffalo study conducted at John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital is one of the first to reveal that there were fewer cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in ...