COVID-19 deaths plummeted by 73% last year as the pandemic emergency declaration ended and more Americans gained protection through vaccination or previous infection.

Average life expectancy in the U.S. increased nearly one year in 2023, rebounding to a level not reached since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a lasting impact on schools and students, with many still feeling the effects of virtual learning and social isolation.

We know from five years of COVID-19 research that one of the biggest predictors of whether people will follow public-health guidance is how much they trust science and health authorities.

The Covid-19 Pandemic With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. They Lost Someone to Covid.

Five years ago, Virginia reported its first COVID-19 death, marking the beginning of a pandemic that would claim the lives of 26,000 people in the state.

But Woolf warns that bringing US life expectancy back to pre-pandemic levels shouldn’t be the goal. His research shows that the country has been falling behind on life expectancy for decades and ...

The death rate for COVID-19 fell to about 12 per 100,000 people, a quarter of the previous year's rate. Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on ...

The Covid-19 pandemic set US life expectancy back by years, but new research shows that the country had been falling behind for decades.

Michael Cunningham's new novel, 'Day,' follows a New York family during the pandemic — and in its time-shifts feels like another homage to Virginia Woolf.

Last fall, when federal statistics showed life expectancy had fallen for Americans in 2021 for a second year in a row, it was clear that the devastating covid-19 pandemic was the immediate cause ...