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 reveals burnout and professional dissatisfaction driving physicians to leave their practices

Study investigates the prevalence of burnout, professional fulfillment, and intention to leave among physicians, revealing significant variations based on gender, age, race, and specialty.

1 Jan 2024

New vaccine design targets universal immunity with "chef"-inspired tool

Vaccine development aims at protecting as many people as possible from infections. Short protein fragments of pathogens, so-called epitopes, are seen as a promising new approach for vaccine development.

20 Dec 2023

NHS COVID-19 app study shows digital contact tracing's effectiveness in predicting virus transmission risks

A comprehensive study in the Nature journal analyzed over seven million data points from the NHS COVID-19 app, revealing how digital contact tracing can effectively predict SARS-CoV-2 transmission risks based on exposure duration and proximity.

20 Dec 2023

New vaccine strategy targets SARS-CoV-2's stable S2 subunit, offering broad protection against evolving variants

Study presents a new SARS-CoV-2 S2 subunit vaccine that elicits strong antibody responses against various sarbecovirus strains, including challenging variants like XBB.1.5, demonstrating its potential as a broadly effective and stable vaccine option.

18 Dec 2023

New Year's Eve celebrations linked to spike in COVID-19 cases: Small gatherings, not large events, the main culprit

Study investigates the impact of New Year's Eve celebrations on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Belgium, revealing that small-scale social gatherings, rather than large events, significantly contributed to a surge in COVID-19 cases among higher education students.

18 Dec 2023

Shattering myths: Study reveals new insights on type 1 diabetes and obesity link

Review examines the relationship between type 1 diabetes and weight disorders, debunking myths about T1D and offering recommendations for future research and therapeutic interventions.

18 Dec 2023

COVID-19 hospitalization linked to greater long-term health risks than seasonal influenza

Study reveals that hospitalized COVID-19 patients face higher long-term risks of death and health adversities across multiple organ systems compared to those hospitalized with seasonal influenza.

18 Dec 2023

New study shows XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces hospitalizations and ICU admissions in older adults

Study evaluates the effectiveness of the XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine in reducing hospitalizations and ICU admissions among vaccinated adults aged 60 and over in the Netherlands, showing a 70.7% effectiveness against hospitalization and 73.3% against ICU admission.

17 Dec 2023

Study sheds light on global laboratory-acquired infections and pathogen escapes

Study analyzes global incidents of laboratory-acquired infections and accidental pathogen escapes from 2000 to 2021, highlighting the need for improved biosafety protocols and reporting systems.

17 Dec 2023

New dry powder aerosol COVID-19 vaccine shows promise against multiple virus strains

Study introduces a novel dry powder aerosol COVID-19 vaccine, showing its effectiveness in inducing strong immune responses and offering protection against various SARS-CoV-2 strains, including Omicron.

15 Dec 2023

Intranasal COVID-19 vaccine shows promise in reducing severe symptoms

Study evaluates the single-dose intranasal spray vaccine dNS1-RBD, finding it effective against symptomatic COVID-19, particularly in reducing severe symptoms and respiratory issues.

15 Dec 2023

Hidden reservoir revealed: Extracellular vesicles could be potential source of COVID recurrence

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has posed unprecedented challenges worldwide.

14 Dec 2023

Rift over when to use N95s puts health workers at risk again

Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of covid-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on the front lines may once again be at risk if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes its committee's advice on infection control guidelines in health care settings, including hospitals, nursing homes, and jails.

14 Dec 2023

IFNγ identified as crucial for reducing pulmonary viral loads in COVID-19, new research shows

The role of type-2 interferon (IFNγ) in antiviral immunity.

14 Dec 2023

New study highlights the need for advanced pneumococcal vaccines in the wake of pre-COVID data

The risk factors associated with CAP caused by serotypes in the different pneumococcal vaccines.

14 Dec 2023

Study shows lasting COVID-19 symptoms lead to economic struggles for US families

Study reveals that persistent COVID-19 symptoms and severe infections significantly impact the economic conditions of US families, with low-income households being more vulnerable to financial hardships.

13 Dec 2023

COVID-19 vaccination eased anxiety, insomnia, and depression in Chinese adults, study finds

Study reveals that COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces the prevalence of anxiety, insomnia, and depression symptoms among Chinese adults, with vaccinated individuals reporting lower severity of these conditions compared to non-vaccinated individuals.

13 Dec 2023

Are COVID-19 outcomes, including severe COVID-19 and persistent symptoms, associated with economic hardship among US families?

Researchers investigated the relationship between COVID-19 health outcomes, economic hardship during the pandemic, and pre-pandemic socioeconomic status in United States families.

13 Dec 2023

U.S. veterans' study reveals key insights into Long COVID and protective role of vaccination

Study examines the clinical characteristics and trends of post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) in U.S. veterans, showing the protective effect of vaccination and the need for precise symptom documentation for effective research and clinical care.

12 Dec 2023

Loneliness linked to increased mortality risk in older adults, study finds

Study reveals that cumulative loneliness significantly increases mortality risk among middle-aged and older adults in the U.S., emphasizing the need for interventions to combat social isolation.

12 Dec 2023

Coronavirus Disease COVID 19

Overview

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?

Feature Articles

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

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?