More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal ...

AI versus the next pandemic

Every few years, a virus exposes how unprepared the world remains. COVID-19 did so in 2020, H5N1 bird flu continues to raise ...

Are We Pandemic Ready?

Hantavirus and Ebola are reminders that outbreaks are inevitable, and that the world must work together to contain them and ...
Scientific American

The world is more at risk of a pandemic now than before COVID, experts say. This is why

As world health leaders face deadly outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, a major pandemic preparedness report finds we are less safe from viral outbreaks than before COVID ...

WHO says Ebola not a "pandemic emergency," and U.S. criticism over response may be down to "misunderstanding"

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says risks from the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda are "high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level." ...

Pandemic loan fraud pumped housing prices, research indicates

For Americans dreaming of owning a home, this decade has been brutal. From the end of 2019 to the end of 2022, the median sales price for homes sold in the U.S. soared 35%, according to the Federal ...
Medical Xpress

How likely is a new pandemic in the future? Here's what Americans said in a poll

In 2020, COVID-19 began spreading rapidly across the U.S., leading to major shutdowns and radically altering the lives of millions. Now, five years later, most Americans think the country could be ...
Newspoint on MSN

The world's first AI-designed vaccine is ready! Will the pandemic be stopped before it even begins?

AI Vaccine: This technology has also passed the crucial stage of first human testing. (AI Vaccine will end the pandemic) AI ...
Psychology Today

Lessons Should Have Been Learned From Previous Pandemics

In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...
NPR

How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better

People who don't trust scientists. Nations that don't trust each other. And a lab in a suitcase. These are some of the ways the world has changed – for worse and for better – in the wake of the ...
KMBC Kansas City

COVID-19: Five years since pandemic declaration

Today marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and while life has mostly returned to normal, the virus's impact lingers.Empty hallways, bare grocery store ...