coronavirus

The boosters did not trigger a robust response against BQ.1.1. People with a prior history of infection who received the booster had a stronger response

Covid, flu and respiratory syncytial virus are circulating at the same time, putting strain on hospitals.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is making clear he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it. This past week more than 20 Republican governors wrote to President Joe Biden asking that the administration remove the mandate. They say it has hurt the...

A year after the omicron variant of COVID-19 began to upend the world and start a new stage of the pandemic, several new subvariants have originated from the variant, with reaction to treatment changing along with the subvariants.

The FDA said bebtelovimab is no longer authorized for use because it is not expected to neutralize the omicron BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 subvariants.

Health officials are reiterating precautions to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, especially with more gatherings planned through the end of the year.

Health officials are reiterating precautions to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, especially with more gatherings planned through the end of the year.

Students in Hong Kong have chanted “oppose dictatorship” in a protest of China’s COVID-19 rules.

Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures have called for China’s powerful leader to resign. That’s an unprecedented rebuke.

Protests against China’s restrictive COVID-19 measures appeared to roil in several cities Saturday night, in displays of public defiance fanned by anger over a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang region.

Baidu traffic data showed Beijing has fallen from being the most congested city in all of China to 74th place.

The first real-world data on the new omicron vaccines find that they are better at preventing symptomatic Covid infections than the earlier doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci during a White House news conference said it pains him as a physician to see people refuse the Covid vaccine for political reasons.

As the holiday season approaches, many of use are planning to travel to celebrate with family. However, COVID is still lingering around, and there have been recent surges of flu and RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) cases. Due to the uptick in the number of individuals infected by these respiratory viruses, doctors worry that we could face a “tripledemic” this winter….

Everyone in a district of 1.8 million people in China’s southern metropolis of Guangzhou has been ordered to undergo virus testing while a major city in the southwest closed schools as another rise in infections was reported.

Apple said on Sunday that COVID-19 restrictions in China will reduce the iPhone 14 production capacity at the primary assembly plant in Zhengzhou.

More than 17% of women reported experiencing long Covid at some point during the pandemic compared to 10% of men, according to Census Bureau data.

Your Covid symptoms — including their severity, and how long they might last — may depend on your vaccination status, data from the ZOE Health Study suggests.

The new ‘Scrabble’ variants aren’t responding to certain treatments, including Evusheld, a drug used as prevention for people who are immunocompromised.

Patients with mild Covid, defined as those not hospitalized, were 2.7 times more likely to develop blood clots, according to the U.K. journal study.