The scientists had stressed that the idea of airborne transmission of the new virus was still mostly theoretical, but they’d ...

While covering Covid, science writer Carl Zimmer learned how little we know about air and how it affects disease transmission ...

Five years after the WHO declared COVID to be a pandemic, questions remain including how many people have died.

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

New findings add weight to the theory that COVID-19 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Experts point to lax ...

Most of the world went into lockdowns in March 2020 response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but what has been the impact in those ...

The shadow of the Washington Monument towers over “In America: Remember,” an art installation that features flags for every U ...

Former Palm Beach Town Council President Margaret Zeidman led the town's response during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

But what if you could avoid getting COVID-19 altogether? That’s the potential promise of a new study on a drug made by Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. At a scientific conference in San ...

While public opinions of the CDC and the WHO shifted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, recent survey results indicate that ...