Coronavirus research news archive

Research News

2025

• Fine-scale patterns of SARS-CoV-2 spread from identical pathogen sequences
  Nature, March 5, 2025

2024

• COVID-19 inflammatory signature in a Mozambican cohort: unchanged red blood series and reduced levels of IL-6 and other proinflammatory cytokines
  BMC Infectious Diseases, November 11, 2024
• Routine lab tests are not a reliable way to diagnose long COVID
  NIH news, August 12, 2024
• Study suggests reinfections from the virus that causes COVID-19 likely have similar severity as original infection
  NIH news, July 11, 2024
• Strategies to Enhance COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among Prioritized Groups, Uganda–Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Future Pandemics
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024
• Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Post–COVID-19 Condition during Omicron BA.5–Dominant Wave, Japan 
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2024
  
• NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine opens
  NIH News, July 1, 2024
• Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Kakuma Refugee Camp Complex, Kenya, 2020–2021
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 2024
• Melioidosis in Patients with COVID-19 Exposed to Contaminated Tap Water, Thailand, 2021
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 2024
• How lung distress from SARS-CoV-2 can cause heart damage
  NIH Research Matters, April 2, 2024
  
• Severe lung infection during COVID-19 can cause damage to the heart
  NHLBI news, March 20, 2024
• SARS-CoV-2 fragments may cause problems after infectionNIH Research Matters, February 27, 2024 
  
• COVID-19 vaccination and boosting during pregnancy protects infants for six months
  NIH/NIAID news, February 14, 2024
  

2023

• What We Learned from Covid Response
  NIH Record, December 8, 2023
• Examining the impact of COVID-19 on mortality in the U.S.
  Global Health Matters, November/December 2023
• Studying COVID-19 in South Africa sheds light on how immunity contributes to variant success
  Global Health Matters, November/December 2023
• Study reveals how young children's immune systems tame SARS-CoV-2
  NIH/NIAID news, October 13, 2023
  
• Ohio State Scientists Evaluate Role of Deer in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
  NIAID blog, August 28, 2023
• SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to cells’ energy production
  NIH Research Matters, August 22, 2023
• COVID-19 vaccination and boosting during pregnancy benefits pregnant people and newborns
  NIH/NIAID news, August 11, 2023
  
• Genetic variant associated with absence of COVID-19 symptoms
  NIH Research Matters, August 8, 2023
  
• NIH launches long COVID clinical trials through RECOVER Initiative, opening enrollment
  HHS/NIH news, July 31, 2023
• Project NextGen — Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic, authored by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha
  New England Journal of Medicine, July 26, 2023
• Research in Context: Progress toward universal vaccines
  NIH Research Matters, July 25, 2023
  
• Designing a SARS-CoV-2 decoy
  NIH Catalyst, June 13, 2023
• NIH study identifies features of Long COVID neurological symptoms
  NIH/NINDS news, May 5, 2023
• Biomarker pattern found in kids with COVID 19-linked inflammatory syndrome
  NIH/NICHD news, April 25, 2023
• SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination
  NIH/NIAID news March 20, 2023
• Inhalable hydrogel protects lungs from SARS-CoV-2
  NIH Research Matters, March 7, 2023
• Direct and indirect mortality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, March 1, 2020 to January 1, 2022, co-authored by Fogarty's Cécile Viboud
  elife, Feburary 22, 2023
• The NIH-led research response to COVID-19
  Science, February 2, 2023
  
• Developing mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses
  NIH/NIAID news, January 11, 2023
• Paxlovid reduces serious risks from Omicron variants
  NIH Research Matters, January 10, 2023
  
  

Fogarty Staff Publications

• Fine-scale patterns of SARS-CoV-2 spread from identical pathogen sequences
  Nature, March 5, 2025
• Evaluation of the US COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub for informing pandemic response under uncertainty, co-authored by Fogarty’s Cécile Viboud
  Nature Communications, November 20, 2023
• A comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 review, Part 2: host extracellular to systemic effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection, co-authored by Fogarty’s Nídia Trovão
  European Journal of Human Genetics, November 8, 2023
  
• Evolutionary and spatiotemporal analyses reveal multiple introductions and cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 VOC/VOI in Malta, co-authored by Fogarty's Nídia S. Trovão
  Microbiology Spectrum, October 6, 2023
  
• Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts, co-authored by Fogarty’s Nídia S. Trovão
  Science Translational Medicine, August 9, 2023
  
• Sequential viral introductions and spread of BA.1 across Pakistan provinces during the Omicron wave, co-authored by Fogarty’s  Nídia S. Trovão, David Spiro, and Zeba Rasmussen
  BMC Genomics, August 3, 2023
• Behavioral factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission heterogeneity within a household cohort in Costa Rica, co-authored by Fogarty’s Kaiyuan Sun
  Communications Medicine, July 22, 2023
  
• Rapidly shifting immunologic landscape and severity of SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron era in South Africa, co-authored by Fogarty’s Kaiyuan Sun & Cécile Viboud
  Nature Communications, January 16, 2023
  

Fogarty Grant Recipient & Trainee Publications

• Rapid dynamic changes of FL.2 variant: A case report of COVID-19 breakthrough infection, co-authored by Fogarty grant recipients Roger Shapiro, Joseph Makhema, and Shahin Lockman, and trainees Sikhulile Moyo, Gobuiwang Khilly Kurusa (Gasenna), and Simani Gaseitsiwe
  International Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 2024
• The evolution and interpretation of seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among South African blood donors from the Beta to Omicron variant-driven waves, co-authored by Fogarty trainees Marion Vermeulen, Wendy Sykes, Charl Coleman, Tanya Nadia Glatt, and Karin van den Berg
  Vox Sanguinis, December 29, 2023
  
• Utilizing river and wastewater as a SARS-CoV-2 surveillance tool in settings with limited formal sewage systems, co-authored by Fogarty International Research Scientist Kayla G. Barnes
  Nature Communications, November 30, 2023
• Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Acute Respiratory Illnesses in South African Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic, co-authored by Emerging Global Leader Marieke Van Der Zalm
  The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, August 2023
• SARS-CoV-2 infection and pulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents: a case-control study, co-authored by Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Marieke M. Van Der Zalm
  BMC Infectious Diseases, June 29, 2023