Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the first covid lockdown. Ahead of the next pandemic, we must learn lessons about using ...

Even as more people are dying from flu, the Trump administration has postponed vaccine planning for next fall's flu season.

Thursday marks five years since Gov. JB Pritzker issued a statewide stay-at-home order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — ...

Leading experts in the biosecurity community agree on some approaches to preventing and mitigating biosecurity risks but hold ...

Pandemic flus were on Nichole Louis’ mind. It was late 2019 and the Clinton County Health Department was in talks to work on some emergency preparedness training. “We had ended up having a roundtable ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

As bird flu continues to rampage in dairy farms and poultry facilities around the country, the office tasked with coordinating the federal government's response to pandemic threats, including bird flu ...

Mayor Eric Adams and his challengers have their own ideas for how the city could weather a future health crisis.

Chicago has the largest life expectancy gap in the country. As threats to federal funding loom, health experts hope they can ...

“Health Minute” brings original health care and health policy reporting from the KFF Health News newsroom to the airwaves each week. (3/18) Here's today's health policy haiku: ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

The first COVID-19 case in Massachusetts was reported on Feb. 1, 2020, involving a UMass Boston student who had returned to ...