Public Health & Medicine

During a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.

Public health officials all over the United States—indeed globally—are trying to decide how to deal with the world’s coronavirus pandemic.   They know the Public health officials all over the United States—indeed globally—are trying to decide how to deal with the world’s coronavirus pandemic. They know the coronavirus originated in China, and they know they can identify it with certainty. But they do not know what might kill it, and they have no cure for anyone who contracts it.

This is a story about maps and death.

This report describes COVID-19-associated mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native persons compared with non-Hispanic White persons.

Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.

Long-awaited guidance from the C.D.C. brings cruise lines one step closer to sailing again in United States waters.

A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.

Experts say Covid-19 vaccinations in the United States are going extremely well -- but more people need to be protected and the country may be at the start of another surge.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Friday banning the use of Covid-19 passports in the state.

Danny Moore, an entrepreneur and a Republican, made unfounded comments about the 2020 election, along with separate posts about the “Chinese virus."

Andrea Palm, tapped as No. 2 at HHS, has been vilified by Wisconsin Republicans. But her state’s approach to covid-19 vaccinations is working.

This quarter, as coronavirus decimated the global economy, mental health firms raised a record $576 million — 60 percent more than any previous quarter. Services like Talkspace and BetterHelp have reported a rush of new users over the last few months, but teletherapy apps have also been dogged by concerns around privacy and efficacy. Six mental health experts emphasized the digital therapy space needs more transparency and oversight, but there isn't consensus on what the path forward should be.

The app is a digital panic button programmed with up to five of your closet friends or family. A push of the button sends a text to them with your location.

The risk of getting a COVID-19 infection from contaminated surfaces is extremely low, according to

Pediatricians should be vigilant, experts said, after the release of the largest U.S. study of the syndrome, MIS-C, that can strike young people weeks after their coronavirus infection.

As the N.F.L. makes plans to return to stadiums at full capacity this season, researchers published findings that “fan attendance at N.F.L. games led to episodic spikes” in the number of Covid-19 cases.

Does Colorado have universal background checks? Is there a magazine capacity limit?

The B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in Britain, is now the source of most new coronavirus infections in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

By wearing masks and getting vaccinated, Americans could deter variant spread enough to have a "more normal" summer.

Will.i.am and Honeywell introduce the first connected mask. Think sneakers meet smartphones.

The widening gap is fueling frustration and potentially extending the pandemic.

Seth Boster, The Gazette COLORADO SPRINGS — Scott Fitzwilliams was supposed to be off work. But as supervisor of America’s most trafficked national forest,“ you’re never off work,” he says. So there he was Fourth of July weekend, supposed to be enjoying the serenity he had always known at a lake within White River National […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats in Congress are trying to pass the first major gun control legislation in more than two decades with the support of President Joe Biden, who said Thursday that it is...

Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set new records Thursday for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in...

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A campaign galvanized by mass shootings and assault weapons will inevitably find itself in a dead end. But there’s a way out.

The Colorado National Guard confiscated thousands of doses of COVID-19 vaccine from a Colorado Springs medical spa Friday, the same day health officials launched an investigation into potential issues with

Centura Health officials said the change is a result of a national shortage and adverse effects reported at a vaccination site earlier in the week.

Trump himself has helped undercut the thing for which he seeks the most credit.