When we asked readers if the city should declare a public health and safety emergency, the overwhelming majority of ...

South End residents who live near the Mass. and Cass intersection have been raising the alarm for months that public drug use ...

Councilor Ed Flynn filed a resolution to declare Mass. and Cass a public health, safety, and humanitarian crisis. Do you agree?

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the agency will pull $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development ...

Federal continuation of the emergency now likely into April 2023 is wise as the ramifications of withdrawing the public health emergency for Covid-19 emergency could have been very bad. Here’s why.

On May 11, the government officially ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE). "We need to get used to it and adjust to our new reality," said one expert. (iStock) ...

An emergency committee of WHO, which is based in Geneva, met early Wednesday to advise WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on whether the disease outbreak constitutes a "public health ...

The WHO defines a public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, as “an extraordinary event” that constitutes a “public health risk to other States through the international ...

Congress expanded access to public and private health insurance coverage during the emergency, which sharply lowered uninsured rates. Even so, some 30 million people in the US remain uninsured.

The public health emergency for COVID-19 is slated to end on May 11, close to three years after it was first declared by the Trump administration.

The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the nation is not ready for a new ...

Last Friday, the World Health Organization ended the Public Health Emergency of International Concern that it announced three years ago when the virus that causes COVID-19 became a global threat.