We spoke to 20 Louisiana health care workers about the lasting impacts of COVID-19, five years later. Here's what they said.

If confirmed, Makary would run one of the nation's leading health agencies, overseeing the regulation of food and drugs.

Five years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many people still have questions. Here's what doctors said they're hearing – and what they wish to be asked – and how they're answering.

COVID-19 didn’t just claim lives directly—it reshaped mortality patterns worldwide. A major international study found that life expectancy plummeted across most of the 24 analyzed countries, with additional deaths from cardiovascular disease,

It feels like just yesterday, some of us were standing in long lines outside grocery stores, masked and cautious, as the world around us rapidly changed. We found ourselves learning

According to Reuters.com, travel on U.S. roads in 2024 increased by one percent to 3.28 trillion miles, which set a new yearly record and topped pre-COVID-19 levels for the first time. The DOT announced previously that road travel for 2023 had topped 2019 totals, but was forced to revise that figure to a lower total.

COVID-19 divided communities over politics, public health and personal liberties. How that played out in Southwest Florida.

Bandi and her team found that past-year cervical cancer screenings in 2023 remained at 14%, which is below pre-pandemic levels. “We want to detect cancers early when they’re more treatable,” Bandi said.

Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy and economics at Stanford University who rose to prominence as a skeptic of lockdowns and mask mandates amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic increased housing instability among the city's refugees, particularly more recent arrivals from Somalia.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - A Tennessee business owner has agreed to pay the United States over $1 million to resolve allegations that he unjustly enriched himself by misappropriating COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) funds obtained from the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the COVID-19 pandemic.