In "Planning Miracles," Jon Cohen chronicles the efforts of scientists and others to eradicate the threat of pandemics.

As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) first used that term on March 11, ...

When Karyn Bishof started experiencing Long COVID, there wasn’t a name yet for the symptoms that lingered after her infection in March 2020. “I had these continued, prolonged symptoms that I wasn't ...

The results show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which plunged the world into economic and health care turmoil amid the unprecedented breakout in 2020, and it left the majority of the U.S. with a ...

March 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic. COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, but there have been plenty of actions that ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Five years ago, Virginia reported its first COVID-19 death marking the beginning of a pandemic that would claim the lives of 26,000 people in the Commonwealth. Community members and ...

ON JUST HOW FAR WE’VE COME SINCE THOSE SCARY DAYS. THE OVERARCHING FEELINGS WERE FEAR, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST AMONG THE PUBLIC BUT US, THE UNKNOWN, LIKE THE VAST UNKNOWN OF HOW TO TREAT IT. DOCTOR AMY ...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. The NBA suspended its 2019-2020 season and a day later, the NCAA canceled March Madness. Actor Tom Hanks and ...

Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries — a category of deaths ...