Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic did.

Millions of jobless Americans who have depended on federal unemployment aid as a financial lifeline are about to lose those benefits. 

As more people get vaccinated and the spread of COVID-19 becomes more controlled, public health officials are issuing new travel advice for more than 120 countries.

A Virginia nurse recruited her sons to work with her at Arlington County Public Health to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted new recommendations Friday on the importance of good ventilation in preventing coronavirus spread in schools and daycares. Its top recommendation: Open a window.

The anti-science movement has set up the United States and the world up for a worse COVID-19 pandemic than otherwise would have been, infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez argued Thursday.

Virologist and infectious diseases expert Nathan Wolfe warned 12 years ago that the world didn't understand how to handle infectious diseases.

The Covid-19 pandemic has set gender equality back years, with women around the world taking on the "lion's share" of extra domestic chores, the United Nations reported on Thursday.

Early research suggests immunity to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can last for at least six months -- and possibly much longer, perhaps even years, when all components of the body's immune memory are taken into consideration.