Despite having one of the most sophisticated health care systems in the world, the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic fell well short when compared to other developed nations.

"It seems weird to come down with the virus as we approach the fifth anniversary of the global pandemic," Susan Hazlett writes.

This flu season has been brutal nationally, and though Illinois is faring better than some of its neighbors, experts say if ...

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.

Questions remain over where COVID came from and how long it spread undetected. Five years ago, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, leading to stay at ...

When children stop going to school? In many cases, it was impossible to know what caused the specific changes — some aspect of the Covid pandemic or another invisible influence. But the findings ...

IDPH syndromic surveillance, defined on their website as health related data received when illness begins, provided emergency department visit data about firearm injuries. This data collection ...

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. “It still feels kind of incomplete,” said ...

The COVID-19 virus spreads mainly through exposure to airborne droplets infected with the virus. While it's possible to be infected with COVID by coming in contact with a surface with the virus on ...

Japanese version The data on this "Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Japan" page is based on original coverage by the Mainichi Shimbun and press releases from the Ministry of Health ...

Here the authors characterise the cellular and molecular progression of lung alveolar damage in severe COVID-19 patients using integrated histopathology and cell atlassing, pinpointing a role for ...

Five years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, experts worry the world has still not learnt its lessons, saying it is a question of when-not if-a deadly, new “Disease X” strikes. Scientific ...