The Latest Breaking News from Eric Topol

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County's coronavirus-positive hospitalizations are rising again, causing health officials to urge residents to put masks back on if they have stopped doing so.

Even as top U.S. health officials say it’s time America learns to live with the coronavirus, a chorus of leading researchers say faulty messaging on booster shots has left millions of older people at serious risk.

LOS ANGELES — The proportion of coronavirus cases of the ascendant omicron subvariant BA.2 is rising across the U.S. and along the West Coast, new federal forecasts show.

New data Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show omicron’s more transmissible BA.2 subvariant now accounts for more than a third of the virus circulating in the U.S. but is not yet driving a surge in cases here as it has overseas.

Scientists worry that a contagious coronavirus variant may soon push cases up in the United States just as it has in Europe and Asia

LOS ANGELES — Coronavirus cases are on the upswing worldwide, prompting some officials to warn that California could see increases this spring because of the omicron subvariant BA.2 even though cases so far have been modest.

US could be turning the corner on the pandemic, but not if you are one of the many people who has lost loved ones or is suffering post-coronavirus symptoms known as long Covid

LOS ANGELES — So how much longer will the pandemic last?

SAN FRANCISCO — The omicron wave took a much greater toll on Southern California compared to the San Francisco Bay Area, where higher vaccination levels contributed to significantly lower death rates, according to a Los Angeles Times data analysis.