Omicron

Experts worry new variant may push up COVID cases

Fans storm the court at the conclusion of a college basketball game in Champaign, Ill., on March 6, 2022. (Michael Allio/Associated Press)

Top Omicron Headlines

Fewer Americans are concerned about getting COVID as omicron …

A trailer with the words "Freedom! No Mandate" on its back window is shown in Needles, Calif. as it heads toward Washington D.C. to protest COVID-19 on Feb. 23, 2022. (Nathan Howard/Associated Press)

73% of U.S. now immune to omicron: Is that enough?

Passers-by wear masks under their chins as they chat with one another while crossing a street, in Boston, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

What new study says about effectiveness of COVID booster …

Nurse Mary Ezzat prepares to administer a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot to Jessica M., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Calif. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)

Omicron landed in affluent L.A. areas but poor communities of …

Dr. Faraiba Faqeerzada examines a 2-year-old at South Central Family Health Center in Los Angeles. The center is in a neighborhood with the highest Omicron case rates in the county.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. County nursing homes saw small increase in COVID …

A room in a nursing home is seen in an undated file photo. (Getty Images)

L.A. County has likely passed peak of omicron transmission, …

A woman receives help with a nasal swab at a BusTest Express Covid-19 mobile testing site in Paramount, a city in Los Angeles County on Jan. 12, 2022. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

More Omicron

Here’s what’s known about the ‘stealth’ version of …

A laboratory technician analyzes COVID-19 samples on Aug. 13, 2021 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Optimism grows as omicron peaks in California, but …

A healthcare worker gives instructions to a person on how to swab their nose as they receive testing for both rapid antigen and PCR COVID-19 tests at a Reliant Health Services testing site in Hawthorne on Jan. 18, 2022. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images)

California appears to have passed peak of omicron …

People wait in line for a test at a BusTest Express mobile COVID-19 test site in Paramount, a city in Los Angeles County, California, on Jan. 12, 2022. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

L.A. County is seeing more fatalities from omicron …

A triage tent sits outside the Emergency Department at MLK Community Hospital on Jan. 13, 2022.(Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)

Garbage, recyclables pile up as omicron takes its …

Trash sits out for collection in Philadelphia on Jan. 13, 2022. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

Culver City Unified will close next week amid omicron …

Students talk with their teacher inside a Culver City High School class in this undated photo. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)

About 130,000 LAUSD students missed class this week …

Students attend class at Olive View Middle School on the first day back from winter break on Jan. 11, 2022. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)