The fifth anniversary of COVID-19 is approaching. With a possible bird flu pandemic looming and a mysterious deadly outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, we should quickly learn the ...

The World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency on May 5, 2023. In the year since, only two provinces — Alberta and Ontario — have published proposals for dealing ...

Two years into a battle that has seemed much longer, the pandemic is finally stalling. Or slowing. Or maybe – if fate and viral spread allow – ending. At a minimum, we have a breather; we can even ...

"I think COVID-19 showed how the public health system had not been adequately supported," said Dr. Philip Huang, director and health authority of Dallas County Health and Human Services. "But we are ...

This week C&EN presents the Talented 12 class of 2025: a dozen early-career researchers who are using chemistry to do world-changing work. When the Talented 12 agree to be profiled, we give them a ...

"China virus," the Chinese virus—at the start of the 2020 pandemic, this epithet was often encountered in the media. The use of geographically based labels to define the disease (COVID-19) and the ...

It is now five years since clinicians in Wuhan, China, first encountered covid-19 cases in December 2019. Hindsight makes it even clearer how the battle against the disease wasn’t just a fight against ...

Since the first two confirmed coronavirus infections were identified March 10, 2020, more than 46,000 people in Michigan have died, according to the state health department. The COVID-19 pandemic ...

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times. The 1918 flu pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, caught the world by surprise just as the First World War ...

Protests against vaccine mandates, like this one last month at the Peace Bridge, were driven at least in part by misinformation that experts say may be much harder to combat than the virus itself. Two ...