The Coronavirus Outbreak

Our opinion section took us to the front lines of COVID, revealed how racists misuse evolutionary biology, illuminated a mental health epidemic in kids, and more

Boosting vaccination rates, continuing widespread mask use and reimposing some restrictions on movement could reduce the number of deaths in China’s COVID wave

From COVID to space exploration, graphics helped tell some the year’s most important stories

Key genes that are active in the brains of older people are also active in the brains of people who developed serious COVID

Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.

Two epidemiologists explain how three viral illnesses are straining health care systems

In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity.

COVID cut average life spans short in many high-income countries, but the U.S. decline has been steeper and longer than most

Antibiotics won’t work on the virus that causes COVID, but in places like India, their overuse threatens to nullify their effects on other equally deadly pathogens

Nearly three years into the pandemic, COVID’s mortality burden is growing in certain groups of people

Global trade rules are extending the COVID pandemic

A genome analysis finds SARS-CoV-2 and bat coronaviruses shared an ancestor just a few years ago, but extensive recombination has muddied the picture