The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...

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Next year’s COVID vaccine recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appear likely to be less expansive than in previous years. Notes from a recent meeting of the ...

The White House's revamped Covid-19 website now prominently features the lab-leak theory, alleging the virus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The site criticizes a study ...

Researchers used a simulation model to estimate the economic burden of long COVID. Costs of long COVID could exceed $2 billion and reach nearly $31 billion, depending on longevity of symptoms.

Federal COVID-19 resource websites, covid.gov and covidtests.gov, now redirect to a White House page promoting the lab leak theory. While the CDC reported low national wastewater viral activity ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) may lead to an increased risk of developing severe illness and a more complicated recovery from a COVID-19 infection. Generally, respiratory infections such as pneumonia can ...

The FDA has approved new versions of Pfizer/BioNTech's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax COVID-19 vaccines that target the Omicron KP.2 strain of SARS-CoV-2 which was dominant in the US in recent ...

The U.S. Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual COVID-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current ...