The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its spread in what is now officially recognized as a pandemic. Its true fatality rate isn’t yet known, but it ...

Find out what it is and how to protect yourself.

COVID-19 is the shortened name of coronavirus disease 2019. It is a pandemic illness caused by a coronavirus. The virus that causes COVID-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Is the coronavirus getting weaker as it spreads through a larger portion of the population? And should we expect it to mutate when the anticipated second wave hits this winter?

As the weather cools and fall approaches, COVID-19 cases are still spiking in much of the United States. The country has yet to emerge from a late summer COVID wave driven by the highly contagious new ...

With measles outbreaks, flu spikes, and COVID as a seasonal threat, learn key differences between these contagious diseases, symptoms, vaccine advice.

The top U.S. public health agency stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread from person to person through the ...

In order to understand the current controversies about access to the COVID-19 vaccine, we need to reflect on how we got here. The virus is called COVID-19 because it emerged in December of 2019 in ...

PARIS (Reuters) -The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if the virus mutates to transmit between humans, the head ...