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The virus could still be incubating in someone who was exposed while traveling home the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said Thursday that there will probably be more COVID-19 deaths each day in the U.S. for the next two to three months than there were deaths during the bombing of Pearl Harbor or on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

Actual FDA report on vaccine released today 12-10-20.

Performing a COVID-19 test at home will now be possible without a prescription.

On Wednesday, the United States recorded more than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths, a single-day pandemic record. This new high comes as the country struggles with uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus. In April, when COVID-19 was hitting the northeastern United S

Experts say the vaccine seems likely to be approved despite some confusion in the results and lower levels of protection other vaccine candidates have shown.

The FDA on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine shows that the vaccine meets the agency's requirements for safety and efficacy

Here's what happened to NHS staff with allergies who took the vaccine.

A bill proposed in the New York State Assembly by Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) would make the COVID-19 mandatory in "certain situations."

A White House official on Monday said that President Donald Trump is willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine live on television. During a background call with journalists, one reporter asked does "the president expect that he will ever receive the vaccin

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices told officials on Monday that Americans need to be prepared for side effects so that they won't be afraid to get second doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

The most significant coronavirus mutation so far has been detailed in many studies, most of them saying that the D614G mutation has made the virus more infectious. A new paper details an experiment...

Elon Musk, also known as the creator of the Tesla electric car line, says he took four tests for coronavirus after having cold-like symptoms. The results provided more confusion than clarity.

The news: There have been increasing numbers of anecdotal reports of a link between surviving covid-19 and developing mental health problems in recent months. Now we have some numbers to back those reports up. A new study, published in Lancet Psychiatry,

The Infectious Diseases Society of America tells MarketWatch that it supports Biden's 'laudable' plans to combat COVID-19.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 7,436,278 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 39,548 from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 361 to 209,560.

A CDC study recently identified restaurants, gyms, and offices as particularly risky places to go in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The study found that 40.9% of coronavirus patients went t...

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an updated guidance on Monday said COVID-19 can spread through airborne transmission, a month after it took down a similar warning.

The CDC released a report describing a "multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults" or (MIS-A), months after a similar condition was reported in children.

Guest post by Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.) Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who investigated the origin of the COVID-19 virus during the initial outbreak in Wuhan China as a medical researcher in Hong Kong, has now provided unequivocal evidence that the virus was not of n