The coronavirus genome is 30,000 letters long, encoding more than two dozen different proteins that enable the virus to hijack our cells. Of these, spike gets all the glory and infamy; it is the ...

People who contract COVID-19 but never develop symptoms — the so-called super dodgers — may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They’re more than twice as likely as those who become symptomatic to ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some people infected with the virus don’t experience any symptoms. Others have to fight for their life. While some patients battle the illness over a couple ...

Health authorities and scientists say they are now racing to study BA.2.86, a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, after the highly mutated variant was spotted spreading in multiple countries ...

Omicron, the newest coronavirus variant, was also the quickest to be labeled a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of ...

A fast-moving COVID-19 strain is sweeping the country with a striking calling card: “razor blade throat,” a sharp, searing ...

JN.1 has overtaken HV.1 as the leading variant in the U.S. The latest vaccines provide some protection against each of them. By Dana G. Smith For the past year, Covid-19 variants have circulated in a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new group of highly transmissible coronavirus (COVID-19) variants are taking hold in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The ...

People who contract COVID-19 but never develop symptoms – the so-called super dodgers – may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They’re more than twice as likely as those who become symptomatic to ...