SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

The New York Times quietly edited its early articles on the COVID-19 pandemic to scrub the phrases “China virus” and ...

Turns out, the virus behind COVID-19 didn’t start in Wuhan—it travelled over 2,700 km from bats in western China or northern ...

The virus likely reached humans not via bat migration but through the wildlife trade—contradicting hypotheses that it may ...

The governor of Washington declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States. More than 50 people in a nursing facility ...

According to the paper, the precursor to SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats in western China or Northern Laos several years before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan.

The COVID-19 virus traveled a similar amount of distance in about the same amount of time as the 2002 SARS virus.

A recent study from a team of researchers, including those from UC San Diego, gives new credence to the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic spread naturally from bats, suggesting it arrived in Wuhan ...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...