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The Black Death may have killed up to 200 million people, nearly 50 percent of the world’s population, making it one of the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history. Compared to the COVID-19 ...

A new study finds that school reopenings during the pandemic were associated with declines in diagnoses of anxiety, ...

Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three ...

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world, millions of people across the globe are still living with the ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating ...

Babies born during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are heading to preschool and kindergarten, and experts are waiting anxiously to see its impact on the young learners. Concerns about cognitive ...

The news of a fresh spike in COVID-19 cases from Mumbai and a few other cities might bring back a strange sense of déjà vu, those initial anxious days of the pandemic, the masks, the isolation, and ...

The brains of healthy people aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic than did the brains of people analysed before the pandemic began, a study of almost 1,000 people suggests. The accelerated ageing ...

'The Big One' could be even worse than COVID-19. Here's what epidemiologist Michael Osterholm says we can learn from past pandemics. Future pandemics are a 'certainty' — and we must be better prepared ...