As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

Like it or not, COVID-19 is still a public health issue five years after the start of the pandemic flipped the nation, and the world, on its head. Here is a brief recap of the status of COVID cases, ...

Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. From the very early days of the pandemic, ...

Four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus first prompted U.S. officials to shutter schools and limit public gatherings, misinformation about the virus persists. False claims that COVID-19 ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Passengers wearing face masks inside Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Apr. 27, 2022. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. With COVID-19 spreading as widely as it is right ...

Public health recommendations suggest individuals can resume normal activities 5 days after symptom cessation. However, our study finds that full recovery can take longer, indicating that delayed ...

The summer surge of COVID-19 is here, with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing increases across much of the country. In its latest report, the CDC said the number of cases ...

Testing positive for COVID-19 is not exactly a positive experience. After all, wanting to go viral these days doesn’t tend to mean wanting to be infected by the severe acute respiratory syndrome ...