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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.

Addicted to chilli? Here’s how it might help us regain our sense of taste...

The news of a hot chilli sauce shortages earlier this year – due to high temperatures and drought in agricultural regions – prompted warnings...

This readily available, inexpensive drug may help treat COVID-19

A recent study from the University of California Los Angeles found that an inexpensive, readily available amino acid might limit the effects of COVID-19. It...

COVID-19 vaccination could protect people with blood cancer

In a study from the Medical Center-University of Freiburg, scientists found COVID-19 vaccination could protect people with blood cancer. People suffering from blood cancer often...

Heart inflammation from COVID boosters is rare, but risk highest in teen boys, young...

In a study from Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center, scientists found the risk of developing myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart muscle –...

Blood clot risk remains high nearly a year after COVID-19

scientists found people who got COVID-19 had a higher risk of dangerous blood clots close to a year later.

This drug can help COVID-19 patients recover faster

In a study from the University of Oxford, scientists found molnupiravir (taken as an 800mg dose twice daily for five days) does not reduce...

Scientists find the cause of smell loss in long COVID

In a study from Duke Health and elsewhere, scientists found the reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is...

A third of people with long COVID suffer persistent smell loss

In a study from the University of East Anglia, scientists found smell loss is one of the most prevalent symptoms of long COVID.

A majority of Americans have not got the latest COVID booster

In a new survey from the COVID States Project, scientists found that nearly half of American adults reported having been infected with COVID-19 at least...

Scientists find a cause of COVID-19 reinfection

In a study from Imperial College London, scientists found that antibodies produced in the nose decline nine months after COVID-19 infection, while antibodies found...