Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) introduced a bill Thursday that would give Congress greater oversight of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

During the winter of 2020 and 2021, the US saw deaths from COVID-19 reach 250,000. The following year, this number surged by a third to 330,000. But from August 2022 to March 2023, the number of ...

Five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, is it really here to stay? Alin Luna via Unsplash Now five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to ask the question of whether ...

The US government plans to make more at-home Covid-19 tests available for free this month as the country heads into respiratory virus season with high levels of the coronavirus already circulating.

Okay, so it seems like everyone I know has come down with COVID this summer — even the people known as NOVIDs (never had COVID before). I’ve been lucky so far. What do I need to know to protect myself ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services is winding down emergency authorizations related to Covid-19 for drugs and biological products, as well as medical devices, after concl ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. That’s not to say we are in for a COVID-less Christmas. CDC data released over the past two weeks show a sharp increase of viral activity in wastewater.

Only a small fraction of the stockpiled COVID-19 tests have expired and "tens of thousands were still being ordered daily." HealthDay News — The Trump administration changed course on Tuesday, ...

We conducted a phase 2–3 double-blind trial to assess the efficacy and safety of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir in asymptomatic, rapid antigen test–negative adults who had been exposed to a household contact ...