Coronavirus

  Updated 8:20 AM What are coronavirus symptoms? While COVID-19 has been commonly known as a respiratory illness, many patients experience a wide range of different symptoms that the CDC says can appear anywhere from 2 to 14 days after exposure."COVID-19 can look different in different people," it says. "For many people, being sick with…

By Graham Lawton A laboratory in Russia tests for IgG antibodies to the coronavirusSergei Karpukhin/TASS via Getty Images WHEN the novel pneumonia circulating in China was confirmed to be caused by a coronavirus, an already troubling situation suddenly got that bit worse. As a rule, coronaviruses don’t produce a very strong “immune memory”: the long-lasting…

Some New Yorkers had antibodies for the new coronavirus more than a week before the first official case in the state was announced on March 1, new research shows. The findings, released Monday by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, signal that the virus may have been introduced in the New…

June 30, 2020ImageDr. Anthony Fauci warned today that the U.S. could have as many as 100,000 new cases a day — up from the current 40,000 — if the coronavirus is not contained.New cases in the U.S. have gone up 80 percent in the past two weeks, according to a Times database.The European Union has…

3D render illustration of COVID-19 (Getty Images) A new mutation of the coronavirus swaps two amino acids in its genome. Here's what scientists think that means Matthew Rozsa June 30, 2020 9:53PM (UTC) Egon Ozer, an infectious disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, recently told The Washington Post that he noticed a…