Coronavirus Disease COVID 19

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. COVID-19 is caused by one virus, called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2.

The COVID-19 Pandemic: What have the experts learned?

The world’s leading scientists and organizations share their thoughts on the pandemic. Read More.

What Mutations of SARS-CoV-2 are Causing Concern?

As SARS-CoV-2 has spread, it has evolved and developed mutations, causing new variants of the disease. This article provides an insight into all variations.

What Role has Social Media Played in COVID-19?

What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About Infectious Diseases?

Why Can Women Fight COVID-19 Better Than Men?

How has COVID-19 Changed the Delivery of Care?

What is a Variant?

What is COVAX?

Mythbusting: COVID-19 Misconceptions

COVID-19 and Heart Damage

How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted the Adoption of Digital Health Technology?

What is the 'Twindemic'?

Monoclonal Antibody Treatments in COVID-19

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Innate versus Adaptive Immunity in COVID-19

COVID-19 and Mouthwash

Types of COVID-19 Test

What Role does Endothelial Infection Play in SARS-CoV-2 Infection?

Protecting Your Mental Health During a Pandemic

How has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Global Health?

Humanitarian Aid in the COVID-19 Pandemic

What is Epidemiologic Modeling?

COVID-19 and Smell Loss (Anosmia)

The Importance of Global COVID-19 Vaccination

Climate Change and COVID-19

Anthropogenesis and COVID-19

An Overview of the COVID-19 Vaccines

The Search for a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine

The Future of Vaccines

The Future of Pandemics

What is Vertical Transmission?

Blood Clotting and COVID-19 Vaccines

COVID-19 and the Gastrointestinal Tract

What are the Different Types of Vaccines?

Brain Fog and COVID-19

What is Convalescent Plasma Donation?

The Cardiac Implications of COVID-19

COVID-19 and Diabetes

How Will COVID-19 Advances Impact the Future of Medicine?

COVID-19 and Menstruation

COVID-19 and Pregnancy

COVID-19 and Mental Health Research

COVID-19 and Headaches

COVID-19 and Diarrhea

What Does COVID-19 do to the Lungs?

Can Pets Get COVID-19?

COVID-19 and Allergies

COVID-19 and Sexually Transmitted Infections

An Overview of the COVID-19 Vaccines

Long-term Effects of COVID-19 in Athletes

What is the Clinical Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Patients?

How Could Nitric Oxide Treat Severe COVID-19?

How does SARS-CoV-2 Compare to SARS-CoV?

The Rise of 3D Printing in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nasal Disinfectants and their Application to COVID-19

Repurposing Drugs for COVID-19

COVID-19 and Animals

COVID-19 and Obesity

What is Long COVID?

COVID-19 and Smoking

COVID-19 and Health Supplements

How are Vaccines Stored?

COVID-19 and Asthma

Breastfeeding and COVID-19

How is ECMO Being Used to Treat Severe COVID-19?

What is "long haul" COVID and How Does it Relate to the Extended Symptoms of Other Viruses?

Serological Testing for COVID-19

Viral Clades of SARS-CoV-2

How Effective are Antibodies for Treating COVID-19?

What is Viral Shedding?

Coronavirus: B Cells and T Cells

How does a SARS-CoV-2 Virion Bind to ACE2?

What is Phylogenetic Analysis?

How do RdRp Inhibitors Combat SARS-CoV-2?

What is D-Dimer?

What are Furin Proteases?

How do Coronavirus Antibody Tests Work?

What is a Pseudovirus?

The Size of SARS-CoV-2 and its Implications

How has COVID-19 affected Organ Transplantation?

What is a Cytokine Storm?

What is Protein Phosphorylation?

What is an Overlapping Gene (OLG)?

What is Viral Load?

What is Oxygen Saturation?

What is a Spillover Event?

What are the Symptoms of COVID-19?

How is COVID-19 Spread?

What is OC43?

What is Herd Immunity?

What is an Antibody Titer?

What is Trained Immunity?

What is a Glycoprotein?

What is TMPRSS2?

How has COVID-19 Affected Students?

What is R0?

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor vs. Angiotensin Receptor Blockers

What are Spike Proteins?

What is a Nasopharyngeal Swab?

What are Fomites?

What are Negative Pressure Rooms?

What is Case Fatality Rate (CFR)?

What are Coronaviruses?

What is the Difference Between COVID-19 and the Flu?

D614G Mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

Hypoxemia in COVID-19

What is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)?

Who's Most at Risk from COVID-19?

Vitamin D and COVID-19

Seroprevalence of COVID-19

COVID-19 and Senior Mental Health Post-Lockdown

How does the COVID-19 Pandemic Compare to Other Pandemics?

What is Seroconversion?

What are the Recommended Preventative Measures for COVID-19?

The Surge of Sensationalist COVID-19 AI Research

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Fighting Fatigue

What are COVID Toes?

What is the Role of Autoantibodies in COVID-19?

Role of T Cells in COVID-19

What Factors Affect Antibody Production?

What is Viral Pneumonia?

The Naming System Behind SARS-CoV-2

Plasma Donation and COVID-19

COVID-19 and Autoimmune Diseases

What is a Reagent?

How has the COVID-19 Pandemic affected Recreational Drug Use?

COVID-19 and the Gastrointestinal Tract

A Targeted Nutritional Supplement Proves to Aid Persistent Fatigue in Post-COVID Patients

A nutritional supplement to aid in post-Covid syndrome

A specific nutritional approach for subjects with post-Covid Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue after Covid-19 infection can improve thanks to Apportal®

Chronic fatigue after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Focus on post-covid fatigue

Post Covid-19 chronic fatigue: an observational survey highlights the positive effects of Apportal®

Post-Covid Chronic Fatigue: how can we help you?

What can COVID-19 Teach us about Respiratory Disease?

Physical and mental fatigue after Covid-19: Is there a solution?

Should you Mix COVID Vaccines?

How has COVID-19 Influenced Pollution?

COVID-19 and Reproductive Health

What is a Viral Strain?

Pandemic vs. Epidemic

Nanomedicine and COVID-19

COVID-19 and Psoriasis

A Comparison of the Different Types of Face Mask

COVID-19 and Corticosteroids

Is Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Possible?

Unlocking the Healing Power of Opera: How Operatic Breathing Can Help COVID-19 Patients with Long-Lasting Symptoms

Awake Prone Positioning for COVID-19 Patients

Importance of Wastewater Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

Latest Coronavirus Disease COVID 19 News and Research

Study tracks long COVID's shifting course in general population

Long COVID trajectories in a general population cohort show variable recovery patterns, with a portion of patients experiencing improvement, deterioration, or stable symptoms over time.

7 Feb 2024

E-cigarette use among US youths climbs, with pandemic years showing slight decline

Study highlights a significant rise in e-cigarette use among US youths from 2013 to 2019, with a slight decline during the pandemic but levels remain high, particularly among older youths and across all demographics.

7 Feb 2024

Cirrhosis patients face mixed infection outcomes amid pandemic healthcare shifts

The COVID-19 pandemic's influence on healthcare systems led to mixed outcomes for patients with cirrhosis, showing stable infection rates but a rise in multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) infections.

7 Feb 2024

Hunters key to early detection of zoonotic diseases, study finds

Experimental games reveal hunters' vital role in zoonotic disease surveillance through community-based reporting, underscoring the need for increased participation and understanding of reporting incentives.

7 Feb 2024

Study reveals high insomnia rates in non-hospitalized COVID-19 survivors

Researchers investigated insomnia prevalence and its association with anxiety and depression in the non-hospitalized COVID-19-recovered community.

7 Feb 2024

Halfway through ‘unwinding,’ Medicaid enrollment is down about 10 million

Halfway through what will be the biggest purge of Medicaid beneficiaries in a one-year span, enrollment in the government-run health insurance program is on track to return to roughly pre-pandemic levels.

7 Feb 2024

Colorado moves to connect agricultural workers with mental health resources

Colorado lawmakers have proposed a pair of measures they say will improve the availability of mental health resources for the state's agricultural industry, as stress, anxiety, and depression among ranchers and farmhands have emerged as critical issues that have worsened since the coronavirus pandemic.

7 Feb 2024

COVID-19's impact on early education: Retrospective study shows decrease in kindergarten readiness

A new study explored associations between school district early Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) and electronic health records (EHR) data and linked KRA scores with the changes occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 Feb 2024

How is long-COVID different from other post-viral infection syndromes?

The symptoms, illness duration, long-term clinical traits, and possible healthcare burden of post-viral conditions in children and adolescents under 20 years.

6 Feb 2024

Paxlovid enhances treatment options for COVID-19 patients

The design, synthesis, and mechanism of action of Paxlovid.

6 Feb 2024

SARS-CoV-2 fragments found to mimic immune system peptides, fueling inflammation

Study reveals SARS-CoV-2 fragments mimic immune peptides, potentially driving the virus's inflammatory response, offering insights into COVID-19's severe inflammation mechanisms.

5 Feb 2024

Long-COVID recovery insight: Fatigue and cognitive deficits improve over two years

Study reveals improvements in cognitive deficits and fatigue among long-COVID patients over two years, with specific risk factors like depressive symptoms and old age predicting non-recovery.

5 Feb 2024

Does Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) practice reduce stress and increase well-being in practicing physicians?

The efficacy of SKY in reducing psychological distress and enhancing wellness among physicians at risk of burnout.

5 Feb 2024

Congressman off-base in ad claiming Fauci shipped covid to Montana before the pandemic

A fundraising ad for U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) shows a photo of Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, behind bars, swarmed by flying bats.

5 Feb 2024

COVID-19 recovery disparities uncovered among racial and ethnic groups

Study reveals ethnic and racial disparities in health outcomes post-COVID-19 infection, with Hispanic and racial minority groups reporting poorer health status and increased work absence compared to their non-Hispanic and White counterparts.

4 Feb 2024

XBB.1.5 updated COVID vaccine booster offers 54% increased protection against symptomatic infection

Early estimates show the 2023-24 updated monovalent XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine offers significant protection against symptomatic infection, with effectiveness varying by age and time since vaccination.

4 Feb 2024

New sequencing tool speeds up SARS-CoV-2 outbreak response and informs treatment

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. In the context of two Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks involving local transmission and an international flight, the authors of this article used meta-transcriptome and multi-amplicon sequencing to successfully acquire the complete viral genome sequences from clinical samples with varying viral loads.

1 Feb 2024