Novel Coronavirus

A National Institutes of Health initiative plans to study exercise as a potential treatment for long COVID. Some long-COVID patients say exercise does them more harm than good.

The CDC has ended routine reporting of coronavirus case and death counts. Here’s how to figure out how to assess COVID conditions in your area.

The U.N. health agency said that even though the emergency phase is over, the pandemic hasn’t come to an end, noting recent spikes in cases in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

COVID killed more than 500 people a day in the U.S. last year, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

COVID-19 vaccines will still be free. Over-the-counter tests may no longer be, and changes to telehealth may be coming.

Health officials say the new bivalent shots more closely match the circulating virus. For unvaccinated adults, that means one shot instead of several doses of the original vaccine.

The shots would be available for people who are at least 65 years old or immune-compromised.

But many Americans dispute the data and the risks of covid - much as they have throughout the pandemic.

Experts say this omicron variant has a higher transmissibility rate than previous strains but doesn’t appear to be more dangerous.

Scientists, public heath experts and politicians have called for the initiative, warning that existing therapies have steadily lost their effectiveness and that new ones are needed.

The surgeon general’s guidance against the vaccine for young men ignored results showing infection was a greater risk for cardiac-related deaths.

Authorities in Britain have already green-lighted a spring booster shot — but only for nursing home residents, seniors 75 or older or those who are immunosuppressed and at least 5 years old.

During the Omicron era, rules requiring mask use in U.K. hospitals didn’t prevent COVID-19 spread when there were no other pandemic precautions in place, a new study finds.

The vote comes after President Joe Biden announced the national emergency would end in May.

A new study examines the factors that caused some states to have COVID-19 mortality rates that were four times higher than others.

National coronavirus coordinator Ashish Jha is expected to depart amid lower profile for the pandemic that engulfed Biden’s early presidency.

The bill requires the declassification of as much information as possible on potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19.

No one has a clear fix on the extent of Americans’ immunity to the virus that causes COVID-19. And beneath that lies a more fundamental problem: that scientists and public health officials still have not settled on what it means to be immune or adopted a common yardstick for measuring it.

New findings also show that patients with certain underlying medical conditions have twice the odds as previously healthy people of seeking care for long covid.

Some of the lifestyle changes triggered by the pandemic were temporary; others may have more staying power.

The decision to shut down much of the country early in the pandemic remains highly contested, sparking concern about how we’ll respond to the next viral threat.

Lawsuits and legislation fueled by COVID backlash have stripped public health officials of powers, leaving the U.S. underprepared for the next pandemic.

Maryland-based Novavax, which received $1.8 billion from Operation Warp Speed, says it may not continue as a “going concern.”

Christopher A. Wray on Tuesday said covid “most likely” originated from a “lab incident” in Wuhan, China. This is the first time he has stated this publicly.

A coronavirus infection may make it more likely for someone without an autoimmune disease to develop at least one in the months after the infection subsides, new research suggests.