Today, the official Covid death toll in the United States stands at 1.22 million. Excess mortality counts, which compare the ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see COVID-19 through the rear-view mirror. Overall, they don’t feel the virus is ...

How would the world cope if another infectious disease with pandemic potential were to emerge, as COVID-19 did five years ago? The answer is, we simply don’t know. In some respects, there are ...

Ada Calhoun’s debut novel “Crush” is only a novel in the loosest sense. It’s really more of a well-sourced personal essay on ...

The federal government’s work on long Covid has been fitful and disappointing. Now even those efforts seem to be nearing an ...

Luca Pferdmenges, a travel influencer, was among the first Western tourists to visit North Korea since 2020. He was surprised ...

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. In a small study, patients with the syndrome were ...

When journalist Sarah Jones lost her grandfather to COVID-19 in 2020, she poured her grief and anger — along with years of experience writing about class and politics — into an essay for New York ...

As the economic crisis deepens, millions of people in Myanmar are facing hunger, with nearly 15 million projected to be at risk this year ...

Her passing, however, also underscores the unpredictable nature of infectious diseases, reminding us of their lingering threat even as societies move beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years ago ...