In the early days, the virus posed a graver threat to people and the health care system, Trump embraced lockdowns he now blasts, and the benefits of vaccines were oversold.

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A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else ...

The Marine Mammal Center received multiple reports of a northern elephant seal pup on two different Santa Cruz beaches ...

Scientists warn that Disease X, which represents an unknown pathogen, could trigger the next global pandemic. Experts say it would likely be a highly contagious virus, possibly spreading through ...

Six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, here’s a snapshot of preparedness at a time of global health funding cuts, policy shifts and the spread of misinformation.

The coronavirus probe has published its report on the NHS during the crisis.

The next pandemic is not a matter of if, but when. Whether Indiana is better equipped to respond will depend on what we choose to remember and what we are willing to change.