Like all viruses, COVID-19 is transmitted via person-to-person contact. Public health records show that the virus has spread much faster in some countries than in others, but the reasons behind the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and ...

Fight coronavirus at home by cleaning and disinfecting surfaces that are touched often. Most disinfectants for home use will kill the virus that causes COVID-19.

The virus winter season has struck—and COVID-19 is still part of everyday life. However, unlike during the pandemic, we now know more about how it spreads through the air we breathe. Research from ...

Sometimes a virus spreads as an aerosol through the air. And sometimes a virus spreads through political misinformation. COVID does both. How COVID-19 spreads has become more clear over time. When we ...

COVID-19 is the shortened name of coronavirus disease 2019. It is a pandemic illness caused by a coronavirus. The virus that causes COVID-19 is severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COVID-19 activity is on the rise across the United States. The heat is not the only thing rising this summer. COVID-19 is on an ...

The latest strain of the COVID-19 virus, XEC, is circulating across the country. The new variant has been reported in at least 25 U.S. states, according to data from the Global Influenza Surveillance ...

Bars, gyms and restaurants. Those were just a few settings health experts warned could become hotbeds for COVID-19 spread as states began reopening in the spring and summer of 2020 following the first ...