Joel Achenbach

The United States has dug itself into a huge life expectancy hole, and not just because of the coronavirus.

Chronic illnesses erase more years of life among people under 65 as all the overdoses, homicides, suicides and car accidents combined, a Post examination found.

Covid remained remarkably deadly, killing more than 500 people a day in 2022, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A sample taken in a Wuhan market in early 2020 holds genetic traces of both the coronavirus and a small canid known as a raccoon dog, scientists report

The decision to shut down much of the country early in the pandemic remains highly contested, sparking concern about how we’ll respond to the next viral threat

Where did the virus most likely come from, and who is investigating its source? Here’s what we know so far.

A draft report from the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity comes after a nearly year-long review of existing guidelines.

The “lab leak” conjectures about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic have cast a shadow over pathogen research amid broader calls for more government oversight.

How fast is the virus spreading? How long will the surge last? Will it spawn a new variant? Experts weigh in on what the science can reveal.

In Cambodia and Vietnam, 78 percent of sampled mosquitoes have a mutation that shows resistance to the common insecticide permethrin