Five years since the worst pandemic in a century began spreading across the globe, we find ourselves in a world where trust in science and public health is diminished, and where the loudest voices are powered by ideology,
Another pandemic? Seasonal flu surpasses COVID-19 in U.S. deaths for the first time in 5 years. Experts urge flu vaccinations, hygiene practices, and public health measures.
A Tennessee business owner has agreed to pay the United States over $1 million to resolve allegations that he unjustly enriched himself by misappropriating COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) funds obtained from the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.
The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on how religious communities gather for worship. In a Pew Research Center survey in July 2020, a few months after the coronavirus struck the United States,
President Donald Trump this month issued an executive order prohibiting discretionary federal funds from going to schools and colleges or universities that require students to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
The CDC estimates the flu has made at least 29 million people sick and resulted in 16,000 deaths since October 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care systems struggle under the burden of an influx of people with severe illness. Fragile health care systems fail entirely under such pressures.
Five years later, COVID-19 is still among us. But the country emerged from that experience weary of the efforts to safeguard people, suspicious of the science and expertise of those who worked to bring the state and country out of a global pandemic and determined to rebound quickly.
The pandemic increased housing instability among the city's refugees, particularly more recent arrivals from Somalia.
Experts warn of looming "Disease X" as world fails to learn from COVID-19, risking another devastating pandemic.
Journalist Sarah Jones chronicles the gaps in the nation's health care system and social safety net that were highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic in “Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass.