As the U.S. formally exited from the World Health Organization last month, Trump administration officials misleadingly ...

Gain of function research is a controversial form of science that tries to enhance deadly viruses and bacteria to make them ...

Answer : A 2024 comprehensive meta-analysis of the econometric literature on the effectiveness of lockdowns to stop disease spread by Danish, Swedish and American authors find little evidence of ...

The decrease coincided with a drop in humans emitting aerosols. This is an Inside Science story. In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus spread and many places in the world imposed lockdowns, humans ...

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week that the country may never know if coronavirus lockdowns were "worth it." "You know, I don’t think we’re ever going to be able to ...

Your mind isn’t playing tricks on you — the pandemic may have affected your memory. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, COVID-19 lockdowns caused people to lose track of ...

After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: The COVID-19 lockdowns were an expensive, ...

A new paper by three economists affiliated with Johns Hopkins University found that COVID-19 lockdowns barely reduced deaths, but the paper has not been peer-reviewed and is considered a working paper ...

Two years ago, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an order she called a “Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life.” Relying on a law that was ...

FARIBAULT, Minn. — The family and friends of inmates at Minnesota's largest prison are accusing state officials of withholding information about a series of lockdowns over the past several months. In ...