The immune system’s first encounter with a virus or vaccine establishes a “starting template” that shapes its response to new ...

Learn how a naturally occurring cat coronavirus is helping reveal how viral infections can linger inside the immune system.

One of the big debates in long COVID research is whether the virus can persist in the body, or whether it leaves the immune ...

Long COVID affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide and can damage the brain, heart, blood vessels, and immune system ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have uncovered new details about how a once-deadly coronavirus disease in ...

This study shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination generate strong, highly specific spike-binding immune responses ...

Get it early, develop immunity, get back to work: some wonder As COVID-19 numbers climb precipitously, health care workers, first responders and the countless individuals working in "essential ...

Getting a COVID booster could save your life, even if you’ve had multiple prior infections and vaccinations. A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last ...

As scientists learn more about the virus, they say herd immunity won't work. Early in the pandemic, scientists and public health experts leaned on their experience with other viruses to make ...

Seven weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children ...

As governments the world over seek ways to jumpstart economic activity, one proposal is a so-called “immunity passport” that would allow certain people who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to ...