pre-germ-theory environmental sanitation efforts. COVID-19, syphilis, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis show that while biomedical breakthroughs are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases, sustained focus ...

Five years ago on Tuesday, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and the impact of the virus and policies that followed are still being felt to this day. The germ didn’t ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

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. “It still feels kind of incomplete,” said ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization said Covid-19 was a pandemic. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was already spreading around the world — and changing the world: health, science and society.

Early 20th-century public health officials had hoped that efficient scientific solutions alone could take the place of 19th-century, pre-germ-theory environmental sanitation efforts. Covid-19 ...

Today marks five years since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Tyler, leading to shutdowns, quarantining, stay-at-home ...

The COVID-19 virus spreads mainly through exposure to airborne droplets infected with the virus. While it's possible to be infected with COVID by coming in contact with a surface with the virus on ...