The World Health Organization’s member states are negotiating an agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The pact would not authorize the WHO to mandate vaccines or any ...

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of disease, the reach of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

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 ...