The pandemic also disrupted medical care and had an indirect effect on other causes of death.

Findings from small NIH study could provide insight into long-term neurological symptoms of COVID-19.

Prolonged inflammation after SARS-CoV-2 infection caused permanent organ damage, affected the brain and correlated with behavioral changes.

Two drugs widely used to treat certain autoimmune diseases substantially improved clinical status and reduced deaths.

After a long wait, the FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children as young as 6 months old.

The virus can be transmitted via respiratory droplets at close range, but it does not spread through the air over longer distances.

Vaccines designed to produce a strong T cell response may help protect against current and future SARS-CoV-2 variants.

NIH study finds high BMI and obesity raise infection risk, but asthma does not.

Older adults typically have a harder time bouncing back from serious illness, including COVID.

Women who reported chronic depression before the pandemic were 72% more likely to be hospitalized after COVID-19 diagnosis.