"Pathogens don’t respect borders." Experts are split on whether the world is ready for another pandemic: 'Global threats ...

The World Health Organization’s member states are negotiating an agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The pact would not authorize the WHO to mandate vaccines or any ...

Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch. Confidence in the presidency, public schools, the criminal ...

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was ...

Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting ...

March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective trauma that New Englanders faced together. For an upcoming story to mark the anniversary, the Globe is asking readers to ...

U.S. labor productivity initially surged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the massive economic upheaval. As the economy recovered, the level of productivity retreated to its slow ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

In the homestretch of a presidential campaign in the shadow of a once-in-a-century pandemic, Joe Biden has adopted a strategy that would be unthinkable for a candidate in any ordinary year: He’s ...