The Coronavirus Outbreak

We’ve swung between fear and denial for too long and need to talk about this disease from a different perspective

On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about getting reinfected with the coronavirus just a month or two after an earlier bout—and the difference that trusting others can make in a pandemic.

Incomplete viral genomes can quell disease and, with further research, could be turned into treatments

An infectious disease doctor explains what Biden’s medical team will be doing to treat the president’s case of COVID

A possible biomarker for long COVID suggests some people with the condition never fully cleared the virus

People who are unlikely to develop severe COVID-19 have no widely approved medications to ease the illness

With infections still surging, the U.S. needs to invest in this technology to prepare for the next variants

On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about the increase in new Omicron subvariants. Should fall vaccine boosters contain standard Omicron or some of those new subvariants instead?

Developing nations that desperately need these more effective vaccines are virtually locked out

A technique that detects coronavirus strains circulating in a community could become an early-warning system

The FDA has called for updating COVID vaccines to address the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. But will the shots keep up with the virus?

Scientists in Thailand have established that a tabby passed SARS-CoV-2 to a veterinary surgeon—although such cases of cat-to-human transmission are probably rare