Vitamin D is important for bone and muscle health and also benefits the immune system to help fight off infection. You can get vitamin D from sunlight, through food, and by taking vitamin D...

As more people are infected with COVID-19,fewer people are getting the flu. Some people have suggested that COVID-19 has replaced the flu as a common winter infection, and many believe that the flu...

Currently, accurate and effective public health communication is urgently needed to prevent COVID-19 spread and to increase awareness in high-risk communities (such as Hispanic/Latino adults with...

A recent study of people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and COVID-19 looked at racial/ethnic inequalities in access to diabetes care, use of diabetes technology, and outcomes from COVID-19. Of 180...

Many worry that people who test positive for COVID-19 without symptoms (asymptomatic) may still infect others at a fast rate similar to people with symptoms. However, data from Singapore suggests...

People of these ages are now authorized to get the vaccine against COVID-19: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine: 16 years or older. Moderna vaccine: 18 years or older. Children and young teens should not yet...

We will remember the year 2020 for a long time. Over the past 365 days, the Hispanic/Latino community and other underserved communities have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we stated in a...

How infectious are people who test positive for COVID-19 but have no symptoms? Normally in medicine, a test is used to confirm a suspicion of a disease when the patient has many symptoms. This is...

We know that social distancing helps slow the spread of COVID-19. Researchers are now looking at other environmental factors that can slow down COVID-19, such as different seasons and exposure to...

British health experts are not yet sure if science supports taking vitamin D to prevent or treat COVID-19. There are already good reasons for some people to take extra vitamin D in the fall and...

Although more patients are surviving severe COVID-19 infections, there have also been reports of some people having bad symptoms after being discharged from the hospital. Researchers from the...

On December 11, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the virus that causes COVID-19. Today, December 12,...