Six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, here’s a snapshot of preparedness at a time of global health funding cuts, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, at a briefing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 in St. Paul, Minn. Michael Osterholm, left, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, right, ...

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 ...

It has been six years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and though aftershocks continue to affect us all, one day stands out as monumental. That morning, during a meeting with the House Oversight and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic's early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in ...

If the world seems to you a little nastier and more confrontational than it was just a few years ago, you're not alone. Many Americans say the world is a ruder place than it was before the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

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 ...