Epidemics and pandemics are two of the worst tragedies in the history of humankind, killing millions and transforming whole civilizations. Though medicine and epidemiology have made great strides in ...

From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

Memories of pandemics are often contentious. They can be disputed, uncomfortable and politically charged. As the COVID-19 ...

A German analysis explores what underlies shifts in the timing of seasonal surges of respiratory diseases, as well as shifts ...

When it comes to COVID-19 cases and deaths, the U.S. tops the global charts—with more than four million reported cases and more than 140,000 confirmed casualties. With the Trump administration ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...

On March 22, 2020, at the height of the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman coined the mantra for Trump’s back-to-work campaign, writing, “The cure cannot ...