A dismantled health infrastructure leaves the U.S. incredibly vulnerable, warns infectious-disease expert Michael Osterholm.

The results show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which plunged the world into economic and health care turmoil amid the unprecedented breakout in 2020, and it left the majority of the U.S. with a ...

A mask lies on a sidewalk. It’s hard to believe it's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in any other ...

The COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago, seemingly all at once. Treatments quickly became available, primarily because of federally funded basic research. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis ...

Over a roughly three-year period beginning in March 2020, 1,564 Alaskans died from COVID-19. That’s according to a new report from the Alaska Department of Health, which provides a detailed review of ...

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, there was a moment when some people thought it could be a unifying time for the U.S., like the way Americans came together in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, ...

The White House revamped its COVID-19 information website on Friday, unveiling a sleek new landing page dedicated to the “true origins” of the pandemic. COVID.gov, which previously contained ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...