This virus targets the same receptor as SARS-CoV-2, the virus linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, led by virologist ...

There is no evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic, was in any laboratory before the outbreak. Some evolutionary biologists and experts have insisted that a spillover event ...

Kathy Hochul) of “obstruction,” charging that they hindered the House probe into the origins of COVID-19 and the government’s response to the pandemic which killed more than 1.2 million ...

Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in ... and emotional impacts of the pandemic persist in many ways. However, the question remains: Are we better ...

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) ran a two-day pandemic preparedness exercise dubbed Exercise Polaris. The exercise was the first test for a new global coordination mechanism to ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of adopting the world's first binding international agreement focused on pandemic prevention. This landmark development, schedule for potential ...

The starting point for an effective pandemic response is the tools to identify the pathogen. SARS-CoV-2 is a case in point, as infection may be asymptomatic or may mimic symptoms associated with ...

After initially halting all of her travel plans at the onset of the pandemic, Smith resumed her destination hopping last summer. Smith noticed that her social media dispatches from exotic resorts ...

It has since spread across the world and the World Health Organisation has declared a global pandemic ... the virus has been named SARS-CoV-2 and the disease Covid-19.