New viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can arise anywhere in the world and spread to cause a pandemic. But there's a lot you can do to prepare and protect yourself and others.

going back to Abraham Lincoln who served just four years and three months. Under your historic leadership, you brought us out of the darkness of the COVID-19 pandemic where we feared for our lives ...

The head of the World Health Organization warned that the world must prepare for the next pandemic, which could be “even deadlier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. In a meeting of the World Health ...

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. Just over half of U.S. adults (53%) say they’ve gotten neither the ...

The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people in the world, killing around 15 million people and leaving about 400 million individuals with long-term health problems. It also caused the ...

About 1.22 million people have died of COVID in the U.S., CDC data shows. Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

2022 was the year many people decided the coronavirus pandemic had ended. President Joe Biden said as much in an interview with 60 Minutes in September. “The pandemic is over,” he said while ...

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 ...

What will the be the future of COVID-19 and will there be another pandemic? That was the big question of the South by Southwest panel "COVID, Mpox, Disease X, What's Next?" last week. Three years ...

The number of deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic was so large that it ended up impacting the nation’s Social Security fund — which had a net increase of $205 billion. That’s according to a ...