So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.

This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did...

How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?

Inside the debate over how long the coronavirus lasts in the body

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.

The country's oldest trade-off captures more and more people.

The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States.

It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.

Alternative solutions to parents’ dilemma just require more time, money, and imagination.

For those writing the literature of the pandemic, mess and chaos—not polished elegance—are the forms that speak best to an ongoing crisis.

STAT asked a number of public health experts for a single suggestion of how we get ourselves out of this mess. We got lots.

Don’t worry, a little Bayesian analysis won’t hurt you.

John Ioannidis’s controversial studies claim that the coronavirus isn’t that big a threat. Before the Stanford scientist did any of them, he wanted to take that message to the White House.

For the majority of the nearly five million COVID-19 cases across the United States, the point of infection is unknown.