As cases spike across Florida, the virus appears to have caught up with the residents of the Villages. The Villages is a sprawling palm-tree-lined complex so big it has three ZIP codes, 12 golf courses, and multiple libraries and movie theaters, drawing affluent retirees from all over the country.Credit...Eve Edelheit for The New York TimesJuly…

LONDON (AP) — Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got the experimental vaccine. Such early trials…

Since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019, researchers have been attempting to figure out the impact children have when it comes to spreading the virus. Early on it was established that younger people are spared from serious infection compared to older, with very few children losing their lives…

MANCHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont health officials say more false positive test results are coming in from what initially appeared to be a surge of cases in southern Vermont.About 63 people tested positive a week ago using antigen testing done at the Manchester Medical Center. That kind of testing is appealing because of the quick…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Munich and Ulm have determined how the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 inhibits the synthesis of proteins in infected cells and shown that it effectively disarms the body's innate immune system.  Although its name is relatively unspecific and indeed opaque, the Nonstructural Protein 1 (Nsp1) encoded by the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, which…