Thanks to vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 in the period 2020–2024, 2.533 million deaths were prevented at the global level; one death was avoided for every 5,400 doses of vaccine administered. Some 82 ...

GENEVA -- The world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a news briefing in Geneva ...

The condition has put significant strain on patients and society — at a global economic cost of about $1 trillion a year, a new report estimates. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck has been reporting about ...

The United States has reported 31 percent of all COVID-19 cases worldwide, followed by Russia (6.2 percent) and Brazil (5.5 percent), as of May 20.

Nearly five years after covid brought the world to a screeching halt, here’s a look at some key pandemic numbers. 2020: 20,964 Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

In just four years, vaccines against COVID-19 prevented more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide. A groundbreaking new study puts a number to the impact many hoped for during the darkest days of the ...

Geneva — The mpox outbreak is not another COVID-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it. While more research is needed ...

More than 300,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, more than 1.4 million have been infected, and over 83,000 ...

Moore Vogel is a long Covid patient-researcher at Scripps Research and the Patient Led Research Collaborative (PLRC). Charlie McCone is a long Covid patient advocate, is a member of the PLRC, and has ...

LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - There are certain phrases that Wachuka Gichohi finds difficult to hear after enduring four years of living with long COVID, marked by debilitating fatigue, pain, panic ...