SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infects cells by binding its spike protein to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors.

Looking back, Dr. Vesta Sandoval, chief medical officer at Lovelace Hospital, speaks with pride about her profession's ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Discovered in the state of Ceará, Brazil, the novel coronavirus shares similarities with the virus responsible for Middle ...

A Coordenação Estadual de Imunização reforça a eficácia das vacinas para prevenir formas graves e óbitos em relação a doenças ...

Five years after an official state of emergency was declared, this is the first in a series of Herald articles exploring the ...

More than 7 million people have been confirmed to have died from Covid so far, a number that is both still rising and almost ...

SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It averages more than a dozen significant changes every year.

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the incapacity of capitalism to deal with the problems of mass society, and that this ...