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At-home coronavirus rapid antigen tests are effective at measuring infection levels of BA.5, but it’s important to use the tests correctly.

At-home COVID rapid antigen tests are effective at measuring infection levels of the BA.5 omicron subvariant, but it’s important to use the tests correctly.

People recovering from COVID-19 with a history of lung disease, including asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or who had lower levels of a particular antibody in the first week of diagnosis, took longer than their peers to experience a

As monkeypox cases continue to climb and some parts of California report signs the...

As two new COVID variants — BA.4 and BA.5 — wrestle for domination in the U.S., infectious disease experts say it’s unclear what impact they’ll have on the current surge in cases.

Stanford Medicine's Clinical Virology Laboratory today launched a diagnostic test for the monkeypox virus that has been identified in 42 countries and several U.S. states, including California.

Experts are still unclear whether a coronavirus subvariant that’s rapidly rising in...

Stanfords Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.

The extended presence of viral RNA in feces, but not respiratory samples, along with the association of fecal viral RNA shedding with GI symptoms suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infects the GI tract, and that this infection can be prolonged in a subset of individuals with COVID-19.

A handful of COVID cases caused by an omicron-delta hybrid have been identified in the...