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As the coronavirus continues to mutate and wreak havoc, some variants that pop up are more contagious and lead to more severe disease, and are therefore more concerning than others. Variants such as ...

The Delta coronavirus variant has taken center stage in the Hot Vax Summer that wasn't. But as if this highly contagious variant and the public health guideline changes it’s helped spur weren’t ...

The delta variant is by far the dominant strain of the coronavirus in North Carolina and the rest of the country, but experts say there are also other variants to watch. Before delta, there was alpha, ...

What is lambda? You may know that it’s the eleventh letter in the Greek alphabet. Perhaps you recall from Physics that it’s the symbol used to represent wavelength in calculations, or you might have ...

While the delta variant of the coronavirus has quickly become the dominant strain in the United States, it's not the only variant circulating in the population. The lambda variant, first identified in ...