Public Health Emergencies Archives

Leaving the WHO

President Trump says the U.S. is leaving the World Health Organization. What it might mean for public health in the U.S. and the world.

Sites known as preprint servers post research in mere days. That speed has advantages during a health crisis, but it also comes with risks.

Public health departments find themselves fighting the coronavirus with phones and faxes rather than the real-time data that they need.

Is the coronavirus situation in San Francisco calm enough that one of its top hospitals could start sending doctors to help New York City?

A view from inside a hospital at the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak in New York City.

California hasn’t seen the surge of COVID-19 cases that New York has. But hospitals are preparing for if it does.

As coronavirus closes down her café, a small business owner reckons with mounting financial challenges.

Even public health experts are struggling to make the right decisions on whether to cancel plans in the midst of the coronavirus.