It is important for the public to know Covid tests, like many other products facing delays and shortages, have been limited by supply chain shortages. Understanding this helps put in perspective ...

In a disturbing parallel to H.I.V., the coronavirus can cause a depletion of important immune cells, recent studies found.

Researchers have developed a new model for making short-term projections of daily COVID-19 cases that is accurate, reliable and easily used by public health officials and other organizations.

What scientists got wrong about SARS-CoV-2 evolution : Short Wave Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the SARS-CoV-2 virus would mutate slowly. They were wrong.

Interim results are in from a large trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Drug maker Pfizer, working with German company BioNTech, says its vaccine appears to be working really well — it ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living.

Republicans’ response is consistent with their views in surveys last fall. But again, there is a detectable shift among Democrats in the new survey. The 19% who now say the U.S. has done as much as it ...

Vaccine administrators say they aren’t receiving enough “low-dead-space” syringes needed to extract every last dose of Covid-19 shots from vials, a problem at risk of worsening in the short ...

Epidemiology experts say the battle against COVID-19 in the USA is hampered by a shortage of reagents used in coronavirus testing.

Australia’s decision to close its borders protected it from the coronavirus—but that policy is wreaking havoc on the country’s universities, which relied on lucrative tuition from foreign ...

Covid-19 Tests Are in Short Supply. Should You Still Get One? Public health officials once suggested only people with symptoms should be tested. Now some say getting one is a civic duty.

A new study by Texas A&M University researchers published in PLOS ONE details a new model for making short-term projections of daily COVID-19 cases that is accurate, reliable and easily used by ...