Vaccines activate the immune system, training it to fight off certain viral and bacterial infections.
Vaccines aren’t just for kids. Thousands of adults go to the hospital each year for a serious (sometimes even deadly) disease they might have avoided if they had received the vaccination to prevent it.
Long COVID refers to new or recurring symptoms that occur four or more weeks after an infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Coronavirus is a term describes a family of viruses, common in both animals and humans.
COVID-19 is the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2, the 2019 novel coronavirus.
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames air sacs, which may fill with fluid, in the lungs. Learn about symptoms and treatment.