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New viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can arise anywhere in the world and spread to cause a pandemic. But there's a lot you can do to prepare and protect yourself and others.

Pandemic, endemic, and epidemic all describe how far a disease or pathogen has spread within a geographical region or population. A pandemic refers to a global outbreak, such as COVID-19. An endemic ...

Scientists have more evidence, but we may never know exactly what happened. The World Health Organization and China released a long-awaited joint report into the origins of COVID-19 on Tuesday, ...

Enrollment numbers in the first two pandemic school years demonstrate that district instructional offerings influence families’ enrollment decisions and that these effects were more pronounced in the ...

“They’re coming in and they don’t know how to play.” “I had some kids who went on to kindergarten who still did not know a triangle.” “I can’t tell you the number of families who say their kids are ...

A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparedness. A woman wears an ...