A study published in October 2025 in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that mRNA COVID vaccines for the 2024–2025 season reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, ...

Phillips is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and vice president of science and strategy for the COVID Collaborative. Much of this analysis is sound — calls to improve stockpiles, ...

When NPR first featured the work of Brazilian scientists and longtime best friends Patricia Neves and Ana Paula Ano Bom, they were in the early stages of an audacious attempt to break open global ...

As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

Since COVID was first reported in December 2019, there have been more than 775 million recorded infections and more than 7 million deaths from the disease. This makes COVID the seventh-deadliest ...