Emergency service teams, local councils and government officials will take part in a full, multi-day pandemic preparedness exercise, to help the UK prepare for potential future threats.

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) was a program that temporarily expanded unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility to people who wouldn't otherwise qualify. This included self-employed workers ...

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. Experts expect cases to rise again this winter.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are keeping a close eye on "red flags" relating to the bird flu and whether the illness might develop into a pandemic, according to a report.

The coronavirus behind covid-19 has infected most people in the world, killing around 15 million people and leaving about 400 million individuals with long-term health problems. It also caused the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic was extraordinarily challenging for the public health workforce, which mounted a historic pandemic response. The long-lasting crisis revealed numerous gaps in a workforce ...

The COVID pandemic is ongoing, but scientists are on alert for any pathogen that might lead to another global outbreak of disease. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

However, concerns remain high after novel coronavirus pandemic, so the CDC has been carefully tracking and announcing new mutations discovered in the virus. One such mutation may have occurred ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

It’s an ecological wonder not seen anywhere else in the world, and a bonanza for scientists who are looking to stop the next pandemic. This year, their work has taken on new urgency as a ...

The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31 ...

A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands of ...