#National Institutes of Health

Study findings may help explain why wearing masks has been linked to lower disease severity in people with COVID-19.

People who have had COVID-19 appear to be protected against reinfection for at least a few months.

NIAID director Anthony Fauci, MD, and coauthors emphasize the need for a global response to COVID-19.

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But new data add to the evidence that mother-to-infant transmission of the coronavirus appears to be rare.

More than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable immune system memory up to eight months after infection.

Full-dose anticoagulation treatment for moderately ill COVID-19 patients reduced the need for ventilators.

The ACTIV-2 study aims to determine whether neutralizing antibodies reduce the duration of COVID-19 symptoms.

Preliminary results suggest anti-COVID19 nanobodies may be effective at preventing and diagnosing infections.

Anthony Fauci, President-elect Joe Biden and senior legislators were vaccinated publicly to demonstrate their confidence in vaccine safety.

Among 64 pregnant women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, none of their newborns tested positive.

The study will evaluate short- and long-term health outcomes of COVID-19, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

Immune cells called T cells helped prevent reinfection and may be especially important if antibody levels are low or decline over time.

Here are the researchers who will lead the four networks of HIV trials and what each network will focus on.

The vaccine demonstrated 95% efficacy in an ongoing Phase III trial.