The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ohio showed a substantial drop this week, falling from 5,422 last week to 4,616 this week, the state reported Thursday. Case numbers had stayed mostly steady at ...

The virus often mutates by simply deleting small pieces of its genetic code. The mutations "disguise" the virus from antibodies.

The long-term risk for heart disease following a COVID infection was true for anyone, even for people who don't have any ...

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

Five years later, COVID-19 is still among us. But the country emerged from that experience weary of the efforts to safeguard people, suspicious of the science and expertise of those who worked to ...

Around the world five years ago, alarms began ringing about a new coronavirus that scientists named SARS-CoV-2.

The virus is related to the pathogen that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome and capitalizes on the same ‘entry receptor ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see ...

SARS-CoV-2 risk is lower among children aged younger than 5 who had vs did not have prior infection, regardless of vaccination status.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus, a spokesperson of China's ...

While levels of one respiratory virus have reduced significantly in NC since January, the risk of contracting a respiratory ...

In the United States, compared with influenza, COVID-19 infection is associated with increased myocarditis rates among adults. Compared with influenza infection, COVID-19 infection is associated with ...