Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

We asked people how COVID-19 changed their lives for the better, from career shifts to the end of relationships and a ...

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As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.

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Many Americans perceive a rise in rude behavior, and 34% say they see it almost always or often when they go out in public.

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the ...

Bob Pontius, who now works for a company that provides in-home care for seniors, said that burnout drove out numerous veteran ...

From empty downtown streets and care home visits through windows to remote learning and protests against pandemic ...

Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...