SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 ...

The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

“The effectiveness of the COVID vaccines can vary depending on which variants are targeted in the vaccine, which variants are circulating, and host factors,” said Shirin A. Mazumder, MD, and ...

The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz's public profile skyrocketed during the crisis, for better and for worse. Five years since the county confirmed its first three cases of Covid, Poloncarz reflected ...

Some 23% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 between 2021 and 2023 developed long COVID, and in more than half of them the ...

Another recent federal study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in February, showed approximately 1.01 million ...

The COVID-19 pandemic took hold across the globe 5 years ago this month. The Conversation talked to Former Former East-West Center epidemiologist Tim Brown about the early days of the pandemic and ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, and the virus will ...

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It ...

Monoclonal antibodies like etesevimab have lost efficacy against Omicron subvariants, necessitating innovative solutions.