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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Most people who fall sick with COVID-19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and recover without special treatment. However, some will become seriously ill and require medical attention.

COVID-19 vaccines lower the death risk in people with prior infection

Scientists from Stanford Medicine found that people who have recovered from COVID-19 still benefit from vaccination. They found clear evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are highly...

COVID-19 linked to high risk of serious blood clots

Scientists from Umeå Universitet found an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (a blood clot in the leg) up to three months after COVID-19...

The pandemic’s ripple effects on health have begun. What can we do now?

For more than two years, COVID-19's direct harm has been visible in overflowing intensive care wards and grim statistics. Now, some of its indirect...

How worried should you be about BA.2?

The omicron variant swept around the globe, bringing a significant surge in COVID-19 cases and a resurgence of public health concerns about the pandemic...

Scientists find why people with blood type O have lower COVID-19 risk

Many studies have found that blood type affects the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, with blood Type O being less susceptible and non-O blood types...

The price of a pre-pandemic lifestyle

As COVID numbers fall and mandates lift, the question remains: Is it possible to avoid trade-offs between returning to pre-pandemic lifestyles and an uptick...

COVID-19 can infect heart’s pacemaker cells, study finds

Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine and elsewhere found the SARS-CoV-2 virus can infect specialized pacemaker cells that maintain the heart’s rhythmic beat, setting off...

Cancer treatment and diagnosis backlogs during COVID-19 may affect cancer survival

Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancer pandemic has raged on for centuries, though it similarly afflicts people in all corners of the world. In 2020...

Duke study finds the cause of COVID vaccine resistance

Scientists from Duke University found the cause of covid-19 vaccine resistance. The research is published in PNAS Nexus and was conducted by Terrie Moffitt et...

Scientists find a better way to detect severe COVID-19 early

Scientists from the University of Utah found a family of proteins that is strongly increased in the saliva of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The proteins,...