What is a breakthrough infection?
Six questions answered about catching COVID-19 after vaccination
Sanjay Mishra, PhD, Vanderbilt University
If you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe you figured you no longer need...
What are COVID-19 variants and how can you stay safe as...
With the delta variant making up over 93% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. at the end of July 2021, questions arise about how...
On the Trail of a Killer
Antibodies in the blood of COVID-19 survivors know how to beat coronavirus – and researchers are already testing new treatments that harness them.
A person...
Blood sugar levels may influence vulnerability to coronavirus
Blood sugar levels may influence vulnerability to coronavirus, and controlling them through conventional means might be protective
Can watching your blood sugar help fight COVID-19?
Sugar...
Using Genetic Decoding to Trace Covids Spread
The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been
Bert Ely, University of South Carolina and Taylor Carter, University...
Neurological damage common among covid long haulers
Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?
Chris Robinson, University of Florida
One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly...
What is the new COVID-19 variant BA.2, and will it cause...
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina
A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is...
6 COVID-19 treatments helping patients survive
William G. Bain, University of Pittsburgh; Georgios D. Kitsios, University of Pittsburgh, and Tomeka L. Suber, University of Pittsburgh
A year ago, when U.S. health...
Tracking Covid’s variants and spread with genomic surveillance
Genomic surveillance: What it is and why we need more of it to track coronavirus variants and help end the COVID-19 pandemic
Alexander Sundermann, University...
COVID-19 and the cytokine storm
Blocking the deadly cytokine storm is a vital weapon for treating COVID-19
Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Tufts University
The killer is not the virus but the immune...