More than 7 million people have been confirmed to have died from Covid so far, a number that is both still rising and almost ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

In this issue, C&EN takes a look at how the pandemic changed science and scientists and how science will continue to work to ...

COVID-19 struck the world at a time when China and the U.S. were closing in on trade negotiations, shattering a potential deal between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

SARS-CoV emerged about two decades ago in China and spread rapidly to other countries. Fortunately, it was successfully contained and no new cases have been reported since the initial outbreak.

But to some, the coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of epidemics that have caused a panic in recent memory, including SARS, MERS, the Zika virus, and swine flu. So how exactly does the ...

Have we learned anything? This post examines past pandemics and the crucial lessons we must apply to future outbreaks.

An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in Asia and Canada occurs in the spring. Officials credit the use of both isolation (for those sick with SARS) and quarantine (for those ...

SARS showed how quickly infection can spread during its first reported outbreak in Asia in February 2003. Over the next few months, the illness reached more than two dozen countries in North ...