Researchers have rapidly identified ways to apply their expertise to help end the pandemic.

A large-scale shortage of respirators and face shields threatens progress in some labs that are currently trying to ramp up their studies of SARS-CoV-2.

The small number of genetic differences between the original strain of the novel coronavirus from Wuhan and those currently circulating in the US population indicates that a vaccine may likely offer lasting immunity.

The University of Washington department of laboratory medicine in Seattle processes a backlog of COVID-19 samples.

Preliminary modeling studies provide a shortlist of potential coronavirus intermediate host species.

A preprint indicates that coronavirus transmission from surfaces is possible, but does not provide evidence that this has occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pathogen appears to have come from wild animals, virologists say, and there are no signs of genetic manipulation in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

Scientists’ latest understanding of the facts, the suspicions, and the discounted rumors of SARS-CoV-2’s transmission from person to person

Coronavirus possibly in aerosols; blood pressure meds don’t appear to increase COVID-19 severity; cats and ferrets can catch SARS-CoV-2