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The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us
Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of ...
Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?
As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.
The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One
Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...
The pandemic changed travel forever: How air travel, cruises are different 5 years later
Cruise lines and airlines implemented numerous safety measures during the COVID pandemic, including vaccination requirements, ...
Five Years Later: The Pandemic's Lasting Impact On How We Live
We asked people how COVID-19 changed their lives for the better, from career shifts to the end of relationships and a ...
Front-line health care workers reflect on early days of COVID 5 years after WHO declared pandemic
Five years after the WHO declared the COVID global outbreak to be a pandemic, frontline health care workers reflect on what they remember of the early days of COVID.
Madrid leader under fire after documentary on nursing home deaths in pandemic
A documentary on the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents denied hospital care in Spain's Madrid region ...
From pandemic struggles to St. Patrick’s Day crowds, Mary O’s soda bread rises to viral fame
Nestled in a modest storefront in New York City’s East Village, Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Shop blends into the other ...
5 years later, Chicago health care workers say start of COVID pandemic feels like yesterday, yet forever ago
Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Medical Intensive Care Unit was in the process of being transformed into a COVID ICU.
Photos: The 5-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the first in over a century. The international ...