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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jennifer Nuzzo has been worrying about the bird flu — since 2004. After all, it’s her job to worry. An epidemiologist, Nuzzo heads the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health, ...

The United States’ maternal mortality rate has improved in recent years, but it continues to lag behind pre-COVID-19 pandemic ...