Four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus first prompted U.S. officials to shutter schools and limit public gatherings, misinformation about the virus persists. False claims that COVID-19 ...

With COVID-19 cases on the rise again in the U.S., Americans are reviving a familiar precautionary measure: Screening for the virus using rapid at-home tests. Many people still have kits the ...

Since May, highly contagious "FLiRT" coronavirus variants – a term for new mutations of Omicron – have been driving a rise in infections and emergency room trips. Virus levels at local wastewater ...

Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. From the very early days of the pandemic, ...

Soon after SARS-CoV-2 began its assault on the world, scientists began searching for clues about what, if any, factors made people more or less likely to get infected with the virus, and more or less ...

This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. By that date, only 57 Americans had died of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It has been almost six years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in 2020, and while it is no ...