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.

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

Many pandemic viruses emerged naturally – but there’s one that most likely came from a lab - Research provides benchmark for distinguishing natural outbreaks from scenarios involving lab leaks ...

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 ...

Now that those children have reached their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when ...

New research shows students who were not school age during the COVID-19 pandemic are struggling to catch up in reading ...

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

First and second graders continue to perform worse than their pre-pandemic counterparts on math and reading tests, according ...

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 ...

A dismantled health infrastructure leaves the U.S. incredibly vulnerable, warns infectious-disease expert Michael Osterholm.

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that ...

The anti-parasitic drug became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now being embraced as an alternative ...