During the first years of the pandemic, elevated precautions mostly suppressed the perennial flu outbreaks that typically kill between 10,000 and 50,000 people annually in the United States.

Biden’s first executive order as president in 2021 restored the office, and Congress added more resources and formally named it the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy.

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply ...

Even in rich countries, demand for oxygen overwhelmed hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic. In low- and middle-income countries, where nine out of ten hospitals had no medical-oxygen ...

Ten states reported cases in the grim first week of the New Year. As shown in the CDC's table below, at least two cases in the United States involved patients with no known exposure to animals, ...

The plans come in response to the first set of recommendations made by the Covid-19 Inquiry - the ongoing public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic. The chair of the inquiry, Baroness ...