The COVID-19 pandemic has killed at least 7 million people worldwide as of December 2023. The virus has revealed systemic weaknesses in health systems, particularly in supply chains and service ...

Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch. Confidence in the presidency, public schools, the criminal ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a ...

This month marks three years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Since then, more than 750 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported, along with more than 6.8 ...

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives. By Apoorva Mandavilli Until 2020, few ...

March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective trauma that New Englanders faced together. For an upcoming story to mark the anniversary, the Globe is asking readers to ...

For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human populations directly from a wild-animal source, ...

In the US, COVID-19 has killed more than 1.1 million people, infected more than 100 million, and disrupted lives in ways we are still trying to understand. Our continued public health response to this ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge. No single government or institution can address the threat of future pandemics alone. A convention, agreement or other international instrument is legally ...