The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and ...

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

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at-home orders and shutdowns across the U.S. and world. The nation looks much different ...

Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Whether it still is depends on who you ask. There are no clear criteria to mark the end of a pandemic, ...

WBAL, TV 11 NEWS. BRIANNA, THANK YOU. IT’S HARD TO REMEMBER OR HARD TO THINK THAT IT’S BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE THIS HAPPENED. WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE DOING AND HOW OUR LIVES WERE CHANGING. WE ...

In the late winter and early spring of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic grew from a geographically limited viral infection into a full-blown national emergency, disrupting life as we knew it. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A health worker takes a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site in Los Angeles in July 2020. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty ...

Like it or not, COVID-19 is still a public health issue five years after the start of the pandemic flipped the nation, and the world, on its head. Here is a brief recap of the status of COVID cases, ...

Medicare beneficiaries with cardiovascular disease or risk factors had increased mortality rates and fewer hospitalizations ...