White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week that the country may never know if coronavirus lockdowns were "worth it." "You know, I don’t think we’re ever going to be able to ...

There is a surge in COVID-19 cases in California despite unprecedented lockdowns and restrictions aimed at curbing the spreading of the coronavirus. Earlier this week, the state surpassed 2 million ...

The decrease coincided with a drop in humans emitting aerosols. This is an Inside Science story. In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus spread and many places in the world imposed lockdowns, humans ...

Stephen Miller appears to have forgotten who was president in 2020 when he mentioned the topic of “COVID lockdowns” on Fox News, where he ranted about how Joe Biden and Donald Trump are polar ...

In the spring of 2020, when humans were largely hunkered down at home amid the Covid-19 pandemic, wild animals began behaving ...

"More than four months into fighting the coronavirus in the United States," The New York Times says, "the shared sacrifice of millions of Americans suspending their lives—with jobs lost, businesses ...

After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: The COVID-19 lockdowns were an expensive, ...

Were the lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes. Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a ...

Researchers have discovered a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and fewer instances of lightning reported during worldwide shutdowns in the spring of 2020. Global lightning activity ...

Two years ago, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an order she called a “Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life.” Relying on a law that was ...