Coronavirus

New research suggests the coronavirus pandemic may have started earlier than previously thought. Photo: AFP Researchers looked at 7,000 genome sequence assemblies collected from around the world to determine their most recent common ancestor Results suggest the global health crisis may have started at some point between October 6 and December 11 Topic |   Coronavirus pandemicPublished:…

Answering Your Coronavirus Questions: Virus Data, Pandemic Cooking And Mental Health It's been about two months since people across the country started spending the vast majority of their time — and their meals — at home. That comes with the new challenge of cooking most meals at home. On this broadcast of The National Conversation,…

The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to a dozen coronavirus antibody tests, and more than 200 others are currently on the market. One authorized company, Roche, claims its test is 100% accurate at finding coronavirus antibodies in the blood and 99.8% accurate at ruling them out.  Many people who got sick in…

A new study has sparked fears that the coronavirus has mutated to become more contagious, but experts say there is no evidence these changes make it any more dangerous or transmissible than it already is."Viruses mutate all the time, [and] most mutations have no significance even if they spread," said Adriana Heguy, director of the…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: Scientists work in a lab testing COVID-19 samples at New York City's health department, during the outbreak of the…