Patients with COVID-19 should delay getting their influenza vaccine, not because of any evidence about how the virus affects vaccination, but in order to ensure others in the healthcare setting are ...

The Stratus COVID-19 variant has been fueling a rise in cases across the country. Stratus is currently the dominant variant in the U.S. This variant is slightly more infectious than previous variants.

As states grappled with confusion around vaccines, COVID-19 cases have continued to fluctuate nationwide. Some regions of the United States are experiencing "very high" COVID viral activity, according ...

COVID-19 cases are reported to be rising in 27 states and "likely growing" in 12 states more, as well as in Washington D.C., according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or “Nimbus,” that has spread across Europe, the Americas and the Western Pacific. Nimbus is a ...

A resurgent wave of Covid-19 is spreading through Southeast Asia, with densely populated regions in Hong Kong, Singapore, China and Thailand witnessing a spike in cases. Health authorities are on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has addressed concerns about a new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, saying there is "no reason to believe it currently ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2, which ...

President Donald Trump's efforts to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, have brought the agency’s global pandemic response efforts into the spotlight. That ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a moderate Democrat when he served in the House of Representatives but veered left during his two terms as ...

Where and when the Covid-19 pandemic began — in Wuhan, China in late 2019 — is well known. How it began is a matter of heated controversy. There are two competing hypotheses, one of which is hindering ...

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci faced some of his loudest critics on Monday during a House hearing focused on the U.S. response to COVID-19. It was Fauci’s first time appearing publicly on ...