As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

COVID-19 has rapidly evolved over the last few years, creating a slew of different variants. If you happen to get sick, it’s understandable to wonder about the current COVID symptoms in 2024—and if ...

The Food and Drug Administration says it has decided to continue approving COVID-19 vaccine updates for seniors and others at higher risk of severe disease, but will require vaccine makers to conduct ...

Deaths from COVID-19 have slowed significantly but continue adding to a tally of more than 7 million deaths from the virus in the nearly five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a ...

Getting COVID-19 today is much less scary and more common than it was three years ago. By now, many people have had it not just once, but two, three, or even more times. Most of the time, repeat ...

Hospitals are off the hook for data reporting requirements that have been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Per guidance documents from the Department for Health and Human ...

If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of ...

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Using mathematics from computer vision technology, researchers could work backwards from COVID-19 mortality data to find daily infection rates in the first year of the pandemic. The technique makes it ...