COVID-19 appears to be on the rise in some parts of California as a new, highly contagious subvariant — featuring “razor blade throat” symptoms overseas — is becoming increasingly dominant.

Like the name suggests, “razor blade throat” describes severe sore throat pain, as if the throat is “covered with razor ...

A new COVID variant is causing people to experience such severe sore throats that they say it feels like swallowing razor blades.

Patients and doctors say the latest COVID-19 variant spreading in the U.S. in some cases causes a sore throat so painful it ...