We ended up getting lucky with SARS. The coronavirus that caused it turned out to be far less infectious than it first ...

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.

Frequent mutations of SARS-CoV-2 have reduced the effectiveness of vaccines, highlighting the need for mutation-resistant ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

But what if you could avoid getting COVID-19 altogether? That’s the potential promise of a new study on a drug made by ...

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

Developing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is significantly more likely after a case of COVID-19, an ...

Scientists reveal that reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), driven by TGFβ-induced immune suppression, is a key driver ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

As we reflect on five years since the tumultuous start of the COVID pandemic (even if we just wish to forget it ever happened ...

Broad Institute scientist Alina Chan sparked controversy by suggesting COVID originated in a Chinese lab. Five years later, ...