At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland this past week, leaders were discussing what to do about Disease X. This wasn’t about what the heck has happened to the social media platform ...

The phrases we use for the moment we're in We frequently discuss the pandemic as if it were a thing of the past. Indeed, the most traumatic and disruptive part of the pandemic is over for most people.

This is part of a series on preparing for future outbreaks. Sign up for The Next Pandemic newsletter. Sign up for The Next Pandemic newsletter. It’s been three years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, ...

Just four years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new pandemic allegedly is on the horizon — or so claim headlines in various news outlets. This new pathogen is apparently so serious ...

A hypothetical virus dubbed Disease X has world leaders convening at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week to discuss how to prevent the threat of another cataclysmic pandemic. Tedros ...

It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that people around the world started to notice something weird was going on. As the rhythms of daily life changed, some people’s days seemed to run together; ...

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing site in Los Angeles in July 2020. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) It's been five years this week since the World Health ...

To act your age is a virtue — but what that entails has gotten a lot more complicated since the pandemic. Casey Corradin, host of the podcast “Between Us Girlies,” posted a 35-second video on TikTok ...

When the first cases of COVID-19 began accumulating around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) was under pressure to declare the disease a pandemic. That announcement unlocked the keys to ...

After being guinea pigs in the Great Education Experiment of 2020 (i.e., remote learning), parents, teachers and students all breathed a collective sigh of relief (into their masks, of course) when in ...

Eric Sharp and Miriam Schwartz in "What You Can't Keep." The film exemplifies the ingenuity of pandemic-era projects, transforming low-fidelity necessity into high-quality art. Credit: Trademark ...