You get the dreaded text: the friend you just met for lunch tested positive for COVID-19. Now you’re left to wonder if you, too, will get sick in the coming days. But when should you expect symptoms ...

There’s so much public health officials are still learning about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, but one thing is certain: It spreads really quickly. Omicron now causes 99.5% of COVID-19 infections in ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO The COVID-19 incubation period typically ranges from 2- 14 days but averages 3-5 days. COVID is most contagious from two days before to three days after your ...

Research continues to emerge on the highly transmissible omicron variant, which went from being unknown a few short weeks ago to the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States this week.

If you test positive for coronavirus or are exposed to someone who has during the omicron surge, what is the incubation period and how long could you be contagious? The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Omicron may have an average incubation period of three days, shorter than any variant yet, according to preliminary findings from studies cited by The Atlantic. 1. The exposure-to-symptom gap, called ...

Although the discovery of the omicron variant of COVID-19 is fairly new, researchers have seen how quickly it can infect people. You might be wondering how soon the symptoms of the omicron variant ...

It certainly might not seem like it given the pandemic mayhem we’ve had, but the original form of SARS-CoV-2 was a bit of a slowpoke. After infiltrating our bodies, the virus would typically brew for ...

You may be able to pass on the virus, even if you don't feel sick yet. Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD The flu incubation period is the time from when you come into contact with the flu ...

When a person contracts a virus, there can be a period of time before it will show up on a test or before signs and symptoms appear. Experts call this the incubation period. Hepatitis B symptoms can ...

Scientists are still working to gather data on the Omicron variant and there is much we still don't know about it, but some have suggested that it might possibly have a shorter incubation period than ...