COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.2 million lives in the U.S. and over 7 million worldwide, though excess death estimates suggest the toll is much higher. The pandemic caused widespread economic, ...

Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under ...

Latest news and updates on the impact of a new strain of coronavirus on mainland China. The first cases of the virus, which causes the disease Covid-19 and has killed more than 3,000 in China, were ...

Five years ago, a novel virus was rapidly spreading around the world, and in mid-March, American life suddenly shut down. The COVID-19 pandemic altered our lives and our culture in lasting ways. The ...

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the World Health Organization is still reporting deaths from the virus. More than 3,000 people died in the last month, adding to the more ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Masking up. Distance learning. Social distancing. No one could have predicted the profound changes that followed the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- March marks five years since the COVID-19 virus took hold in the New York City metropolitan area, leading to a lockdown and tens of thousands of deaths. While the world might not be ...

In early March 2020, the Grand Princess cruise ship found itself stranded off the coast of California with the fate of its more than 3,500 passengers and crew unclear. The ship was forbidden from ...

Dr. Pappas can be contacted at [email protected]. This letter was published on July 9, 2025, at NEJM.org. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this letter was reported. Zhang B, Thacker D, ...

This year, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to have a detrimental impact on the health and welfare of billions of people, devastating economies and worsening inequality around the world. In 2020, about ...