Public Health

Months after infection, many people with COVID-19 can’t shake illness

It was a Tuesday in late March when Julia Henry first felt the body aches and dry cough that signaled the start of her...

Harvard scientists find new way to limit COVID-19 spread

Even as the death toll from COVID-19 continues to rise around the world, many cities and states in the U.S. and other countries are...

The two skin symptoms of COVID-19 you need to know

In two recent studies from China and Spain, researchers found more symptoms of coronavirus. These symptoms include COVID-19 toes and skin rashes. They found that...

This MIT new drug may help protect against COVID-19

In a new study, researchers have designed a drug candidate that they believe may block coronaviruses' ability to enter human cells. The potential drug is...

New evidence suggests COVID-19 isn’t sexually transmitted

In a new study, researchers found that COVID-19 is unlikely to be spread through semen. They tested Chinese men who recently had the disease and...

New evidence that COVID-19 virus can infect human brain

In a new study, researchers found that organoids (tiny tissue cultures made from human cells that simulate whole organs) known as "mini-brains" can be...

Aspirin may prevent blood clots in COVID-19, study shows

In a new study, researchers found changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in...

People killed by COVID-19 may have these common features

In a recent study from China and the United States, researchers found the most common characteristics of COVID-19 patients who died in Wuhan, China...

If you have high blood pressure, you should know these about COVID-19

Many people have concerns about staying healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those with a chronic condition such as high blood pressure — a reading above...

New evidence for how blood clots form in people with severe COVID-19

In a new study, researchers found new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating immune cell--may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation...