The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

LOS ANGELES — As successive waves of COVID-19 have swept across the Southland, Michael Matteo Rossi, a 35 year-old filmmaker who lives in Los Feliz, has gamely masked up whenever he shopped, ate out or visited with his parents, who are in their 70s.

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PHILADELPHIA — COVID cases have increased in Philadelphia about 40% over the past month — and that's without counting the scores of people testing positive at home as the latest BA.5 omicron variant surges across the country.

At West Boca Medical Center, Dr. Cory Harlow sees patients coming into the emergency department with many of the same symptoms they complained of during the early days of COVID in Florida: pneumonia, high fever and shortness of breath.

Australia’s elimination strategy during the first two years of the COVID pandemic was one of the most effective in the world. Through a combination of early border closures, widespread testing and meticulous contact tracing, localised lockdowns and mask mandates, the number of reported cases was kept to around 28,000 in…

LOS ANGELES — Will Los Angeles County impose a new mask mandate this week in response to a summer coronavirus surge fueled by ultra-contagious omicron subvariants?