Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to make it mandatory again.
The US lacks the capacity to treat long COVID, and HHS defunding is taking the country further away from being able to handle the country’s growing number of long COVID cases.
To stop the spread of infectious diseases, governments need information and other resources that countries around the globe share through international organizations.
Disease outbreaks can make women and girls especially vulnerable to violence, but health surveillance systems do a poor job tracking these trends.
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
Ask any child care provider about the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and you’re likely to hear a variation of one answer: “I can’t believe it’s been six years.” On March 13, 2020, when former Gov. Chris Sununu declared a state of emergency in New Hampshire because of a new, rapidly spreading disease, early educators […]
Controlling the spread of many infections, including measles, depends on trust in public health, which is eroding.
Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.
On Jan. 1, Kate Harmon Siberine marked four years living with long COVID. “I really wish I could tell you that things were drastically improved,” Siberine said. “Unfortunately, that has not been the case for me.” Most people who contract COVID-19 recover from their symptoms within days or weeks. However, for some people, the illness […]