El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
An important lesson amid a measles outbreak in America.
With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, what was once a fringe movement now controls the halls of power.
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
Rumors resurfaced of a relationship between Andrew Cuomo and his top aide, the latest reminder that the former governor’s record presents plenty of targets for his opponents.
Thousands died in nursing homes at the outset of the pandemic. Will a campaign for accountability stall Andrew Cuomo’s progress in the mayor’s race?
Se ha comunicado a los estados que ya no pueden usar las subvenciones para la gestión de enfermedades infecciosas, servicios de salud mental, tratamiento de adicciones y otros problemas de salud.
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
Why is it so hard to discuss the idea that vaccines have both risks and benefits?
Nearly all the people running for New York City mayor appeared at a Covid memorial event with a shared message: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s pandemic response is a reason not to support him.
A print archive of 2020 preserves “what the editors were thinking” when the coronavirus pandemic erupted.
Five years after founding The Times’s flagship newsletter, Mr. Leonhardt recently began a new role on Opinion, overseeing the editing and writing of the paper’s editorials.
A conversation with two political scientists who argue that there is no evidence the measures saved lives.
Con el tiempo nos hemos enterado de que, para promover la apariencia de consenso, algunos funcionarios y científicos ocultaron o subestimaron hechos cruciales.
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.
On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might.
The ups and downs of the last five years have had a huge impact on how we fly, where we go and whether we travel at all. We asked readers to share their stories.
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?
Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of Covid behind it.
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.
The rejection of one bar’s sidewalk seating permit may be a sign of what’s to come.
As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives.
Stuck in their bedrooms, the class of 2021 missed important rites of passage — first job, first car, first date. Now young adults, they’re making up for what they missed at 16.
New York City was on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. It has largely recovered, but has transformed into a place of greater extremes.
The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.
Five years after the global Covid pandemic was declared, there is widespread agreement that closing classrooms was devastating for children. Here is what leaders say they may do next time.
Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools and fresh challenges.
Fewer people leaving the city and more foreign newcomers have helped erase pandemic losses, new census data shows.
People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity.
It became the cocktail of the pandemic.
After the 2020 race, it took a vintage plane to get Thomas Waerner and his 16 dogs back home to Norway from Alaska at the start of the pandemic.
“I’m glad it happened, even at my expense,” said Rod Ponton, who is (still) not a cat.
A photo he shared on social media of himself holding a giant bundle of arugula propelled him to an unusual kind of internet fame.
Tomatoes. Garlic. Olive oil. And a trend that emptied shelves of blocks of feta.
Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.
Stuck to lampposts and floorboards, reminders of Covid’s darkest days are everywhere.
During New York City’s darkest days, some residents found purpose and meaning in helping their neighbors stay safe and even find a bit of joy.
“It still feels kind of incomplete,” said someone who lost several family friends. “It doesn’t feel like there is that closure on any of it.”
Cinco años después de la aparición del nuevo coronavirus, los historiadores ven semejanzas con otras grandes enfermedades, y consecuencias muy distintas.
Whether you fled a crowded city or thought a puppy was the answer, the glimpses of another life we got during Covid have faded away.
We look at how the world changed — and what studies revealed about how we live.
The pandemic gave researchers a rare opportunity to study human behavior. Their work offers lessons about loneliness, remote work, high heels and more.
On the five-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic, a Times reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, looks back at the success of, and the backlash to, the mRNA vaccine. There’s no question that this vaccine technology saved millions of lives. But the vaccin...
Five years after Covid-19 hit New York, we are still trying to comprehend the impact it had on the city and the losses we suffered.
Measles vaccination rates among kindergarteners have been falling since the Covid-19 pandemic. Teddy Rosenbluth, a health reporter at The New York Times, explains why that has experts worried.
We’re still in the chaos phase.
Las fotografías de la pandemia de coronavirus dan testimonio de una época de encierro y aislamiento. También evocan lo que perdimos y la resiliencia en un momento de crisis.
Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them.
Five years later, the coronavirus pandemic may seem far away and foggy, or as visceral as yesterday. Here are some stories of those enduring changes.
Cinco años después, los científicos empiezan a comprender cómo el virus puede provocar cambios duraderos, a veces invisibles.
New York Times photographers covered Covid-19 throughout the world. These pictures, and the moments behind them, stayed with them.
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.
Elizabeth Fusco’s relatives had their usual family dinner in New Jersey in early 2020. Soon, her mother, three siblings and aunt were all dead.
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
Five years later, four couples who married at the peak of Covid quarantine share how their relationships were shaped and where they are today.
In “Air-Borne,” his detailed and gripping account of aerobiology, Carl Zimmer uncovers the mysteries filling our lungs.
The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.
The defendants, part of a group known as “United Patriots,” aimed to reinstate a 19th-century Constitution by giving power to an all-powerful Kaiser.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, gained prominence during the Covid pandemic when he argued against lockdowns.
The French movie industry has been celebrating statistics that show an increase in movie attendance.
It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.
Research with pandemic potential needs the utmost precautions.
Mr. Cuomo has twice had his political career written off and managed to come back. A look at some of the key moments in his career.
Cinco años después de que un novedoso virus se extendiera por todas partes, es difícil recordar cómo fue el principio.
The underlying cause shocked the patient and confounded her doctors.
Five years since a novel virus spread everywhere, it’s hard to remember what the beginning was like.
The outbreak has been traced, tentatively, to three children who ate a bat, the W.H.O. said, and known threats like Ebola and Marburg have been ruled out.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.
In the latest leadership shake-up, Gina Duncan will leave when her contract expires in June, after three years in the job.
Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts to curb health care spending.
En un pequeño número de personas, las vacunas pueden haber provocado una constelación de efectos secundarios, según un estudio a pequeña escala.
In a small study, patients with the syndrome were more likely to experience reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus and high levels of a coronavirus protein.
Progress cannot occur if scientists are barred from asking certain questions.
Oxygen is vital to many medical procedures. But a safe, affordable supply is severely lacking around the world, according to a new report.
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
An estimated 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year. No states require K-12 students to get the shots.
A program to restart outdoor dining in New York City on April 1 is facing an extensive backlog of applications.
“Vaccines should be treated with nuance, recognizing differences between seasonal vaccines and childhood immunizations,” Dr. Ralph L. Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo.
Brooklyn’s U.S. attorney said Weihong Hu and two men set out to “line their own pockets” at the height of the pandemic. Ms. Hu has helped raise funds for Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
Former health officials object to restrictions on the agency. Also: The Kennedy Center; Mayor Eric Adams; profiles in cowardice; fury over Gaza; a plea for protests.
Legislation would end tenant protections that were first put in place during the pandemic.
Stagehands and other backstage workers have gone on strike against a prominent theater, and two productions have been canceled.
Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the No. 2 official at the National Institutes of Health, did not give a reason for his departure.
We explain the ways students haven’t recovered.
The museum, which faces a projected $10 million deficit, said it planned to cut more than a tenth of its employees and mount fewer exhibitions.
El mandatario argentino ha intentado alinear a su país con el líder estadounidense, incluso si eso supone romper con socios y aliados.
President Javier Milei has sought to align Argentina with President Trump, even if it means breaking with previous allies and partners.
The New York Times is interested in exploring how the response to loss may have changed in the last five years.
The New York Times wants to hear from readers reflecting on what life looks like now, five years later.
But there have been plenty of other illnesses to go around.
Los científicos tardaron en reconocer que la covid se propaga por el aire. Algunos intentan ahora adelantarse a la gripe aviar.
Scientists were slow to recognize that Covid spreads through the air. Some are now trying to get ahead of the bird flu.
When we face some risk of a bird flu pandemic, do we want to entrust our health to a man who has fought lifesaving vaccines?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made disputed claims before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made a number of disputed claims.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
También ordenó al Pentágono cancelar los programas de diversidad, reincorporar a miembros del servicio despedidos por negarse a recibir la vacuna contra la covid y crear un nuevo sistema de defensa antimisiles.
The top queries from leaders and experts.
These parents believe in home-schooling and distrust food and drug companies. In Kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.”
Since the pandemic, drug trials that purposely make people vomit, shiver and ache have become a research area of growing interest. All that’s needed: brave volunteers.
The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.
The country, which sank into a recession last year, is trying to entice highly skilled “digital nomads” to work in the island nation for up to nine months.
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who was one of the nation’s top health officials for decades, had received death threats during the coronavirus pandemic. He has hired his own security detail.
Readers’ different perspectives on land acknowledgments. Also: Outrage over the Jan. 6 pardons; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the A.M.A.; return to office.
As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots.
In a wide-ranging interview, Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s health secretary, defended his tenure and hinted that he might run for governor of California.
The only possibility for a second Trump term that would be truly surprising is a period of unlooked-for calm.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
Airlines have been increasingly outsourcing repair and upkeep work to other countries, but experts and consumer groups disagree about its impact on safety.
Economic upheaval caused by the pandemic has clouded analysts’ ability to understand the effects of the 2017 tax law. Republicans call it a huge success and want to extend it anyway.
Los datos de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE. UU. muestran altos niveles del virus circulando por todo el país. Aquí tienes lo último sobre síntomas, tratamientos y pruebas.
La gestión de Biden estará en los libros de historia como un interregno entre dos mandatos de Donald Trump, una pausa en medio de un periodo caótico de cambio, para bien o para mal.
Biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns.
Experts expect cases to rise again this winter. Here’s the latest on symptoms, treatments and testing.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
He didn’t get the credit he deserved on the economy.
While the findings are dated, they come as many current and former Justice Department officials fear that the incoming Trump administration will run the department with an eye toward score-settling.
Aunque los casos están aumentando en China, la situación es muy distinta a cuando surgió la COVID-19 hace cinco años, según los expertos médicos. El HMPV es común y tiene décadas de antigüedad.
While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV has circulated in humans for decades.
But the report, on the experiences of 13 patients, found that the drug had no benefit for some people and that some who benefited said the improvement didn’t last.
Some older Americans have come to depend on virtual consultations with doctors, covered by Medicare. To keep that option in the future, Congress will have to act quickly.
The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter.
For decades, vaccine skeptics were a vocal protest movement. Now, they find themselves much closer to power.
Remote work is increasingly a privilege enjoyed by the most affluent Americans.
Diarrea, estreñimiento, dolor, hinchazón: hemos preguntado a expertos por qué el virus causa estos problemas y qué hacer al respecto.
Mired in a battle to contain surging prices, the central bank also needs to be nimble enough for the economic downturns to come, our columnist says.
Diarrhea, constipation, pain, bloating: We asked experts why the virus causes these issues and what to do about them.
Trump ve los aranceles y la deportación como medios para fortalecer el país, y los votantes parecen estar de acuerdo. Pero corre el riesgo de socavar una de las mayores fortalezas económicas de EE. UU.
Trump’s immigration and tariff plans will strain American farming and raise the prices you see at the store.
On the test, American fourth and eighth graders posted results similar to scores from 1995. It was a sign of notable stagnation, even as other countries saw improvements.
Some voters galvanized by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” said they believed the health establishment was dismissive and even corrupt.
The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.
The preparers filed for pandemic-related tax credits on behalf of ineligible clients and then netted hefty filing fees, officials said.
The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more.
New York’s retail landscape is changing. But it’s not cheese shops or butchers that are taking over those vacant neighborhood storefronts.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selections to run the nation’s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts.
Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.