Public Health & Medicine

BUCHAREST (AP) — Marchers took to the streets Saturday in the Romanian capital of Bucharest to protest restrictive measures to fight the spread of COVID-19 even as new daily infections and deaths...

To live through this period as an Asian-American is to feel trapped in an American tragedy while being denied the legitimacy of being an American.

Much of the continent is experiencing a wave of outbreaks driven by the B.1.1.7 variant, which ravaged Britain this winter.

In New Jersey, Covid-19 has disproportionately killed Latino men under 50. Apart from the economic and social fallout, the numbers raise questions about vaccine equity and who's at risk.

Nearly a third of the nurses who've died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.

"It’s almost like it’s OK to get help."

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

Declaring that “this pandemic is over,” the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a resolution to opt out of further Tri-County public health orders beginning Friday.

Since 2015, The Post has created a database cataloging every fatal shooting nationwide by a police officer in the line of duty.

The short answer is the utility is trying to get the lead out. Here is the medium-sized answer.

To build a more equitable future, examine the past

I wouldn’t wish my situation on anyone, but I keep fighting because I know there are so many women who aren’t able to begin this battle.

As the pandemic rages in Brazil, hundreds of babies and young children are dying of Covid.

In recent weeks, as mass shootings across the United States dominated headlines, many Americans have observed that the country seems to be returning to something like a pre-pandemic state — shootings included.

Nearly a year after Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia, was forcefully arrested by Loveland Police officers after she left a Walmart with $14 of unpaid merchandise, an independent investigation has been launched.

The chief of Emergent BioSolutions made sales of stock options weeks before the company’s share price tumbled.

NEW YORK (AP) — How long does protection from COVID-19 vaccines last? Experts don't know yet because they're still studying vaccinated people to see when protection might wear off. How well the vaccines work against emerging variants will also determine if, when and how often additional shots might be needed. “We only have information for as long as the vaccines have been studied," said Deborah Fuller, a vaccine researcher at the University of Washington. “We have to study the vaccinated population and start to see, at what point do people become vulnerable again to the virus?”

Early trials show Oxford developers may have finally found an effective jab against the disease.

The pandemic brought a record uptick in deaths, interrupted a downward trend in death rates and spurred the highest death rate above normal ever recorded in the country.

Vaccinated and unvaccinated people are getting more lax with behavior at a time when vigilance really matters.

Almost a hundred people at the privately-owned Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora have tested positive for COVID-19.

About 12 percent of children who have contracted COVID had to be hospitalized, according...

Behind the scenes from starter cells to a finished vaccine.

The boy, who exhibited symptoms hours after arrival, is the state’s first pediatric coronavirus death

Identifying those psychological traits may help health officials convince the sizable minority of Americans who don’t want a coronavirus vaccine. Simply sharing information hasn’t worked.

Science builds on science

mRNA’s story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic.

Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore normalcy.

A bill that would require Colorado ski areas to share safety strategies as well as statistics revealing injuries and fatalities didn’t make it out of a committee vote Thursday in Denver after hours of emotional…