In the event of a serious epidemic, emanating from H5N1 bird flu or any other contagious disease, the usual playbook -- ...

In Louisiana, two infants have died of pertussis in the past six months, according to the state health department, the first deaths from the disease in the state since 2018. Louisiana has had 110 ...

social distancing, school closures and various other attempts to contain the pandemic, calling them economically and socially ...

The White House is nominating Dr. Susan Monarez, the current acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency, President Donald Trump said Monday.

Believe me, I understand. It’s unsurprising that solitude is stigmatized on a university campus. After all, our social networks and relationships can literally be modeled as future cash flows. That’s ...

Thompson's mea culpa takes on renewed relevance in the wake of President Trump yanking Dave Weldon's nomination as CDC director last week because "he did not have the votes" in the Senate, a decision ...

Oklahoma’s Board of Education approved social studies standards that would ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election. President Trump signed an executive ...

The early years of the covid-19 pandemic further complicated this situation. While social distancing practices intended to curb covid-19 also greatly reduced cases of other infectious diseases ...

Early in the US COVID-19 epidemic, Americans spent substantially more time at home to reduce cases. Disentangling voluntary from policy-induced behavioral changes is critical for governments grappling ...

As President Biden pushes to get students back in schools, there’s one crucial question: How much social distance is necessary in the classroom ... back to the classroom just a few days a week. The ...