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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 is linked to loss of brain tissue, but correlation doesn’t prove causation

COVID can lead to long-term loss of brain tissue. This is a worrying find, which comes against the backdrop of numerous reports of long COVID.

Everything you need to know about stuffy and runny noses

What's worse than a runny nose? A runny nose and stuffy nose at the same time.

Can you get COVID-19 booster and flu shot at the same time?

With flu season right around the corner in the United States, and Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus still circulating, many people are wondering if they should get their influenza vaccine and the latest COVID-19 booster shot together.

What causes severe COVID symptoms?

Since the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and scientists worldwide have been working to understand how exactly the virus makes us sick. That...

COVID-19 surges linked to spike in heart attacks

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, heart attacks were the leading cause of death worldwide but were steadily on the decline. In a study from Cedars-Sinai,...

Long COVID common in U.S. adults with prior COVID-19 infection

Some people who have been infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 can experience long-term effects from their infection, known as post-COVID conditions (PCC)...

COVID vaccines don’t just benefit physical health – they improve mental health too

The considerable physical health benefits of COVID vaccines, in particular, the significantly reduced risk of serious illness, hospitalisation and death from the virus, are...

Yale designs new nasal vaccine to fight COVID-19

Intramuscular vaccine shots, which are what most people have received to protect against COVID-19 infection, provide a broad-based immune response throughout the body and...

New evidence on rare blood clots after COVID-19 vaccination

Scientists found new evidence on the risk of developing this very rare blood-clotting condition after COVID-19 vaccination.

COVID-19 virus is becoming less severe, study finds

In a study from Massachusetts General Hospital, scientists examined the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.2 subvariant (the strain making a re-emergence this fall). They...