Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization's director-general, has decided not to declare that the world has entered the first flu pandemic of this century. But she's leaving open the question -- ...

The WHO has so far resisted labeling COVID-19 a pandemic. As the coronavirus continues its spread around the globe, a single word is coming from the mouths of experts at an alarmingly growing rate: ...

An endemic disease is one that becomes stabilized within a population. Outbreaks may still occur. The coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic could be on its way to becoming endemic, but we don’t ...

This week, California and Illinois joined New York state in declaring a public health emergency in light of the increasing number of monkeypox cases. Mere weeks ago, the World Health Organization ...

A businessman’s post on Instagram and Facebook wrongly claims that the U.S. government “changed the definition of pandemic” in 2004, suggesting that COVID-19 would not have qualified under the old ...

When will the COVID-19 pandemic end? It depends on how you define end. According to historians, pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death ...

As we begin to see a glimmer of light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, society is asking itself what a world of normalcy will look like. In today’s corporate world, the big questions of the year are ...

For nearly two years now, Americans have lived with SARS-CoV-2. We know it better than we once did. We know that it can set off both acute and chronic illness, that it spreads best indoors, that masks ...

The best part of my job at Common App is that I work with a group of people who show up every day with one question on their minds: What can we do to give all students the information, inspiration, ...

While I’m writing this article, the world is facing the greatest global crisis of our generation. It is worth asking what a globalized world means after the COVID-19 pandemic, and mainly in the ...

Democrats have embraced the scope and cost of the stimulus measure, daring Republicans to campaign against the myriad benefits it delivers for their constituents. By Carl Hulse WASHINGTON — ...