June 09, 2021

Haiti has long perplexed experts with seemingly low infection and death rates from COVID-19 despite its rickety public health system, a total lack of vaccines and a widespread disdain for safety measures.

In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack.

Results of a new Harvard paper are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument against mass incarceration.

Online shopping soared, topping £110bn in sales, while adult sites were visited by half of over-18s.

Many months after their initial infection, some Covid-19 patients are still suffering, but scientists are starting to unravel the cause and treatments for long Covid.

One New Zealand city tops an annual list that has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic.

Jennifer D. Roberts writes that the summer 2020 protests mirror a place that we have seen before in this country -- that epidemics (e.g., coronavirus, police brutality), followed by racial violence are embedded in the American DNA.

Coronavirus 'variants of concern' include the Delta coronavirus variant first found in India, which is more infectious than the original strain.

Coronavirus particles, called virions, are exceedingly small. All the virions in one infected person probably weigh less than a poppy seed.

'A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,' Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBC News' Chuck Todd in a fiery interview.

When college campuses closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, many students chose gap semesters or even gap years instead of remote learning. This is part of CNBC's College Voices series

A study examining data from a large health care provider on more than 48,000 people who had COVID-19 found that those were consistently inactive had a significantly higher risk of hospitalization o...

MSNBC's Brian Williams looks at the latest Covid vaccination conspiracy theory that went viral after an Ohio legislature committee meeting where a doctor and a nurse stated that the injections are magnetizing people - something that is completely false.

When lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic cut local nitrogen oxide emissions, the effect on ozone pollution was global and unexpectedly rapid.

With nearly all tourism in the region halted, Sherpa communities here face a precarious future.

Coronavirus infections might cause lasting harm to the heart, even in those who have never had symptoms.

The World Health Organization’s system should have come earlier. Now, media and policymakers need to get behind it.

Scientists are starting to get insights into the lingering disorder that affects some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 — but many mysteries remain unsolved.

The rapid spread of the B.1.1.7 variant — also called Alpha — might be linked to its ability to dampen the body’s initial immune response.

Scientists are impressed by China’s juggernaut of a vaccination drive, through which it is currently administering nearly 60% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses globally.

Some patients with COVID-19 fail to clear the viral infection quickly, yet our understanding for the underlying immune characteristics is still lacking. Here the authors use single-cell RNA sequencing and other data form such patients to show that persistent infection is associated with immune suppression and reduced expression of ribosomal protein genes.

COVID-19 has led to a global pandemic, but the long-term immunological effects of the infection are only partially understood. A new study now provides important new clues by describing the transcriptional and epigenetic processes behind the immune memory of both adaptive and innate immune cells in individuals who have recovered from COVID-19.

A prospective cohort analysis finds a link between the ChAdOx1 vaccine and an autoimmune disorder known as immune thrombocytopenia—but questions remain and causality is yet to be established.

Across the country, countless people of all body sizes have either gained or lost weight during the pandemic.

Nearly all hospitals in Washington, D.C., will make it mandatory for their employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, health officials announced Wednesday. The District of Columbia Hospital Association said in a news release “nearly all health systems and hospitals in the District of Columbia will each set a date after which vaccination against COVID-19 will be a condition of employment.”…

All of the states with the highest adult vaccination rates went to President Biden in the 2020 election. But the vaccine divide is not just about politics.

In Washington, adults can now walk away from their COVID-19 vaccine appointment with a free, pre-rolled joint. Other states are also offering incentives to try to convince people to get the shot.

We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknown