Two years before Maryland’s top fiscal analysts dropped the bombshell in November about the state’s financial position — the one showing a dramatic and growing $2.7 billion budget deficit — the same group of experts spoke about it in almost magical terms.

Having more oxygen to hand also helps with pandemic preparedness. Many of the pathogens monitored by the World Health Organisation for their potential to generate pandemics cause respiratory distress, so immediate access to oxygen can be crucial to reducing the potential death toll from an outbreak.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the WHO, citing mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial disparities. The order ceases US contributions, impacting global health programs.

Speculation about the alleged findings of a study on long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome spread widely among vaccine skeptics.

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to ...

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

For the first time, a person in the United States has died after being infected with the bird flu. The World Health Organization says the risk of infection for the general population remains low, but as VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports,

In the case of PUA, the program was introduced specifically in response to the COVID-19 pandemic because traditional UI programs did not provide adequate support for those working outside of ...

Britain led the world in developing Covid-19 vaccines but former Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS crisis means Britain scientific capacity is now worse

The final two HDB projects delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been completed. Construction disruptions such as supply and manpower shortages, as well as the termination of an original contractor led to a six- to 12-month hold-up.