A large retrospective study of more than 162,000 asthma patients in the Bronx found that asthma exacerbations dropped sharply ...

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

This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. By that date, only 57 Americans had died of ...

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 World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic five years ago, on March 11, 2020. By then, the disease had already claimed more than 4,000 lives. Today, WHO attributes more than 7 ...

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 ...

The number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic was so large that it ended up impacting the nation’s Social Security fund — which had a net increase of $205 billion. That’s according to a study out ...

Early in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists predicted the coronavirus would mutate slowly. They were wrong. Hundreds of thousands of viral mutations and multiple seasonal waves later, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for clear communication, robust scientific research, and proactive engagement with the public to combat misinformation. Social media's role in ...