Researchers wanted to know why. Specifically, what was it about the virus responsible for COVID-19 that was acting on some patients' lungs to create a kind of pulmonary fibrosis that wouldn't go away?

COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, can cause lung damage and complications such as pneumonia and, in severe cases, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health ...

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Within this dataset, researchers identified more than 11,000 people who had a positive lab test for Covid-19 documented in their medical records in 2020; nearly 3,000 of them had been hospitalized ...

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Autumn’s here, the schools have gone back and like clockwork there’s a new Covid variant circulating. Called XEC, it’s thought to be slightly more infectious than the other strains ...

As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S. Scripps Research’s ...