The Health and Human Services Department has ended a crucial vaccine research contract.

Five years after Covid arrived on these shores, many believe the anxieties of the plague years are in the rearview mirror. But the threat is far from over.

The New York representative seems to be suffering from memory loss.

As public health emergencies end, so do emergency allotments for households receiving vital nutrition benefits.

Millions of Americans who suffer long-term effects of the coronavirus can’t move on with their lives. Can lawmakers lend them a hand?

With fears of a new Covid variant rising, legislators are dithering on providing enough money for testing and care.

Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

Unlike in the last economic crisis, the government didn’t hesitate about spending money during the pandemic.

Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.

Big Pharma and cowardly leaders in the Global North have left poor countries vulnerable to the most contagious Covid variant yet.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

Surveys tracking how house cleaners, nannies, and others have been impacted by Covid-19 show a less rosy picture than official economic data.

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”

Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state. Can it work next year in purple ones?

His terrific speech Thursday constitutes his bet-the-presidency moment. Will enough Americans roll up their sleeves?

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.

We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

There are structural reasons people are swayed by anti-vaccine propaganda. Sneering at the unvaccinated won't solve them.

A highly contagious variant, quarantines, closures, and fast-changing rules: It was supposed to be a calm fall, but we’re looking at a new year that could look a lot like the last.

The latest federal policy, like its predecessors, was written with holes big enough for many housing-insecure renters to fall through. These are the stories from the mess.