Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Researchers have discovered that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have a persistent effect on the innate immune system. These mechanisms may help the human body to better protect itself against potential ...

About 1.22 million people have died of COVID in the U.S., CDC data shows. Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

Five years on, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic is still fresh – though the speed of the news cycle can make it feel like long ago. Some hallmarks of the pandemic era are still common ...

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. “It still feels kind of incomplete,” said ...

Editor’s note — A version of this story first published in 2021. It was a harrowing scene. A 92-year-old man was barely breathing and had extremely low oxygen levels, and emergency medical ...

This page is no longer being updated and reflects the status of vaccine progress through March 4, 2021. For more coverage about the pandemic, visit our coronavirus hub. 3 vaccineshave been ...

China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.