While COVID-19 cases are down overall nationwide, the Cicada variant is quickly gaining ground, new data shows.

The "highly mutated" variant could evade the latest COVID booster shot. What to know.

New ‘Cicada’ COVID Strain Prompts Alert as Symptoms Emerge ...

The COVID-19 variant BA.3.2, nicknamed "Cicada," has been detected in at least 23 countries and half the states in the U.S.

Health officials first confirmed BA.3.2 in the US from a traveler arriving from the Netherlands in June 2025, and it has ...

The CDC was expected last month to publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness, but ...

The new COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is being monitored by epidemiologists — but it doesn't account for a major surge of cases yet ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya objected to the study’s methodology, saying it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccine’s benefits.

Infection levels are still low in the country, but the highly mutated variant might be able to evade your body’s immune ...

The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have ...

While the latest variant, called Cicada, carries more mutations, it’s still part of the Omicron family that emerged in 2021.