In the more than eight months since the novel coronavirus emerged and then spread around the world, scientists across the globe have made rapid progress on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sept. 3 ...

We asked Dr. Alok Patel, part of the ABC7 News team of experts to explain. Coronaviruses get their name from the spikey protein that resembles a crown under a microscope. It's transmitted from person ...

As the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, scientists areworking to discover more specifics about how it’s transmitted — and how best to stop it. But we do know some things. The virus, first ...

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has an enzyme that can counteract a cell's innate defense mechanism against viruses, explaining why it is more infectious than the previous SARS and MERS-causing ...

The coronavirus is certainly scary, but despite the constant reporting on total cases and a climbing death toll, the reality is that the vast majority of people who come down with COVID-19 survive it.

A new COVID-19 variant is quickly spreading across California, and health experts are warning it could lead to a surge of summer cases. “COVID-19 continues to circulate in California and future ...