An England-wide study of over 58 million people has identified eight rare diseases that carry significantly increased risks for COVID-19-related mortality in fully vaccinated individuals. This important research calls for better inclusion of rare diseases in public health strategies,

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing took place on Wednesday, an Akron Press Club panel spoke on Trump's pick, other topical issues.

Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

A Glendale woman has been sentenced to nine years for a COVID-19 healthcare fraud scheme, involving false respiratory test claims, resulting in $46.7 million in fraud.

Ohio students' reading and math scores still haven't recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new report.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

Although long-term nursing home stay or death decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend slowed during the pandemic across all racial and ethnic groups.

In contrast to the lockdowns imposed in many countries around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese authorities issued health advisories and counted on citizens to follow them voluntarily.

The Microsoft co-founder said he believes there is a 10-15 percent chance of a natural pandemic hitting in the next four years.

The reading skills of middle- and elementary-school students in the U.S. has declined the COVID-19 pandemic, according what's know as The Nation's Report Card.

Across the state, scores for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), did not significantly change between 2022 and 2024. Many experts had hoped to see students rebounding from losses caused by pandemic disruptions.