Global disease outbreaks are an unfortunate reality in our modern world of increased mobility. As the coronavirus, now called COVID-19, continues spreading from China to other countries, a question ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Health officials are warning that the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, has the potential to become a global pandemic. A pandemic will expose everyone to an ...

In today’s disasters, risk has become systemic, directly affecting core functions designed to manage the environment, the economy, and health care. Risk is now so all-encompassing that it can no ...

In the 21 days since the World Health Organization declared that the first flu pandemic of the century is "imminent," it's become unclear just what "imminent" means. It's also unclear what would tip ...

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 ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coronavirus news every morning. Countries negotiating a crucial treaty designed to shape the world’s response to future pandemics have ...

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: ...

(WHTM) — For some, it may feel like the COVID-19 pandemic is already over. For others, it may feel like it will never end. We know from history that pandemics do have to end eventually, but when ...

Ten weeks after the first reported case of the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic. The last time it used the designation was in 2009, when H1N1 flu ...

We heard from many that the recent mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado may be a return to a new, sad “normal” as more people are vaccinated against COVID-19. But while firearm-related events where ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the need for consensus on the definition of essential oral healthcare. The article "Pandemic considerations on essential oral healthcare" provides a layered model of ...