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.

A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising. “There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you missed the early fall push for flu and COVID-19 vaccines, it's not too late. Health officials say it's important to get vaccinated ahead of the holidays, when respiratory bugs ...

COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of death from COVID-19. Social media posts have misused survey data and adverse events reports to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people ...

US residents’ ability to get COVID-19 vaccines this fall is about to change as US Food and Drug Administration leaders shift away from a one-size-fits-all approach, raising concerns among vaccine ...

Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease’s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research indicates.

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, ...

Jenny Hopkins moved to Hinesburg from Austin, Texas, just weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the world. So when she first struggled to find a primary care doctor or reach a gynecologist with ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through the air. But just how much virus people breathe out over the course of infection isn’t well-defined. To pin the numbers down, olfactory researcher ...

Researchers discuss the silent impact of the pandemic on adolescent and youth reproductive health in the Acholi sub-region of Uganda ...