Kim Parker contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the U.S. labor market. Businesses shuttered, millions of Americans lost their jobs, and for many others their home ...

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

It’s not a question of if, but when, another pandemic hits Britain. We owe it to all those who suffered to make sure mistakes are not repeated, says Ben Connah, secretary of the UK Covid-19 inquiry ...

A Las Vegas casino was demolished in a controlled implosion after it closed during COVID and never reopened, drawing crowds ...

March 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic. COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, but there have been plenty of actions that ...

Michael Rotolo contributed to this chapter. 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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of financial technology worldwide, including in many African countries, but it also ...

"It almost feels like it’s somebody else’s story — except when I look down at my hands," says Gregg Garfield, who lost most of his fingers and some toes in the pandemic ...

Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still ...

In 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Rex Healthcare on behalf of an employee fired for ...

Hospitals and other medical providers cannot be held liable for complications that developed while treating a patient for COVID-19 during the pandemic emergency, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled.