Journalist Sarah Jones chronicles the gaps in the nation's health care system and social safety net that were highlighted by ...

Five years since the worst pandemic in a century began spreading across the globe, we find ourselves in a world where trust ...

Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public weariness and irresponsible politics are hampering an effective ...

Pathogens such as the coronavirus can travel around the world at a speed that too often outpaces governments’ ability to detect, treat, cure, and prevent diseases. Even the best-funded health care ...

The U.S. will be seen as a pariah in the global community if it does not play a collaborative role in preventing the next ...

Another pandemic? Seasonal flu surpasses COVID-19 in U.S. deaths for the first time in 5 years. Experts urge flu vaccinations ...

Five years later, COVID-19 is still among us. But the country emerged from that experience weary of the efforts to safeguard people, suspicious of the science and expertise of those who worked to ...

President Donald Trump this month issued an executive order prohibiting discretionary federal funds from going to schools and ...

Geneva: The head of the World Health Organization insisted on Monday it was now or never to strike a landmark global accord ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said no country could protect itself from the next pandemic on its own.

The current Disease X appears to be airborne in the African Condo with pandemic potential, but what it is is a mystery right ...