In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world and left in its wake a global healthcare emergency. By the fall of 2022, the U.S. had the highest cumulative COVID-19 deaths per capita ...

March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective trauma that New Englanders faced together. For an upcoming story to mark the anniversary, the Globe is asking readers to ...

Not all sources of meaning are unambiguously positive. Rather, many people in the 17 publics surveyed also mention challenges they have faced – whether they be health concerns, lost jobs, insufficient ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

Pandemics are, by definition, transnational, but the battle against them is won and lost in local trenches. Treaties, national governments, and international institutions draw the most attention ...

Over the past two decades, several high-impact pathogens have emerged or re-emerged. These include three new coronaviruses—namely, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003; the Middle East ...