COVID-19 infection appears to cause women's blood vessels to age prematurely, potentially increasing their risk of heart disease, French researchers say.

Covid strikes in the summer more often than some other respiratory viruses with similar symptoms. If you’re coughing and sniffling during summer, you may be more likely to have Covid than the flu or respiratory syncytial virus — and you should reach for a Covid test, Dr. Al-Aly said.

The “Stratus” variant (XFG) was first identified in January in Southeast Asia. By June, it accounted for 14% of COVID cases in the U.S. While the symptoms of XFG are generally consistent with other COVID variants, some patients have reported hoarseness as a potential distinguishing symptom.

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

Next month marks the countdown toward flu season, and it’s also typically when many have gotten a COVID booster, too. But with new guidance from new leadership on the federal level, things have changed a bit.

When you contract the flu or COVID, your body releases inflammatory cytokines that help fight the pathogen and heal damaged tissue. According to the Cleveland Clinic, cytokines also tell immune cells where to go so they can attack and clear out an infection.

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 shed a light on, and exacerbated, many health inequalities that were in some ways obscured from the gaze of the global population. The disproportionate effect the pandemic had on marginalised groups was clear for all to see.

Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East Coast as it tracks north this week. On Tuesday, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency to prepare for the life-threatening rip currents and storm surge expected to affect the coastal region.