MEDICINE & HEALTHBreakthrough infections are rare but not impossible even after getting vaccinated. So what should fully vaccinated people do when they were exposed to infected COVID-19 patients?
A Chinese government health official recently denied that the Wuhan Institute of Virology or WIV workers were not infected with COVID-19 shortly before the virus first occurred.
A new study on COVID-19 suggests that antibodies against the coronavirus are active 9 months in people after being infected. Strong evidence of the antibody research were recorded from Vo, a town in Italy that had the most positive cases at the early surge of the pandemic.
COVID-19 vaccines are shown to be strongly effective in preempting symptomatic, clinically apparent disease, and most specifically the rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant.
The warm COVID-19 vaccine that the Indian Institute of Science developed has proven efficacy against all present COVID-19 variants of concern, a study showed.
As the United Kingdom begins to ease its restrictions against COVID-19, a new outbreak is on the rise: Norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug.
Dr. Anthony Fauci announced in a recent White House briefing that vaccinated people who contracted COVID-19 are less likely to spread the virus to others than those unvaccinated people.
The latest COVID-19 surge in Mississippi resulting from the Delta variant is hitting the younger population too, along with growing concerns over students' return to school next month.
An unpublished COVID-19 case recently showed a 90-year-old unvaccinated woman after contracting the virus this spring in Europe was found to have been infected with two variants at the same time.
From their development to now that they're being deployed worldwide, COVID-19 vaccines still have to put up against smear campaigns and unsupported claims - the latest being that Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines contain graphene oxide.
Scientists recently claimed that the presence of a specific genetic sequence known as CGG-CGG is an indication that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory.
A new study recently showed low testosterone in men who have symptomatic COVID-19 are six times more likely to turn severely ill and eventually, die from the disease.
Scientists are now looking at the possibility of using a fecal transplant to stop COVID-19 infection on its tracks after two men in Poland recovered from the virus following the transplant.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is reportedly not sold on the implementation of new mask policies just yet, especially that the United States has done well with vaccinations.
A new study on birthday parties during the COVID-19 pandemic, reveals that even trusted people could become vectors of the virus and become the source of viral spread, especially in places with high cases of infection.
Experts want the public to know that there is still an apprehension that new mutations of the virus could bring it back through the COVID-19 Delta Variant, and it may even be stronger.
A bipartisan proposal aims to stop mink farms operations in the United States in an effort to prevent possible mutations of coronavirus that could accelerate the transmission of infection.