From the director of “Midsommar,” a nightmare vision of our national descent.
A Times reporter reflects on the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
America’s public health institutions made mistakes during the pandemic, but that does not justify the Trump administration’s broad assault on health and science.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had ordered the dismissal of charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling bogus vaccination cards for $50 each.
The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid.
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
Ahead of the vote on Thursday, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the commission, appeared before the European Parliament to defend herself against complaints about transparency.
Linda Sun, who worked for two New York governors, is accused of steering contracts to Chinese companies to sell masks to New York’s government during the pandemic.
Mr. Cuomo, the front-runner in the mayoral race and former governor, has a long — and, his critics say, mixed — record handling important issues in the city.
To move beyond the current administration, we need to listen to one another and think beyond crude divisions.
Dr. Fiona Havers is influential among researchers who study immunizations. The wholesale dismissal of the agency’s scientific advisers crossed the line, she said.
Through Covid, protests, strikes and fires, the Independent Hospitality Coalition is helping local business navigate a volatile civic landscape.
Officials drastically understated outbreaks and deaths, depriving citizens of help, two U.S. research groups report, citing interviews with people inside North Korea.
The budget cuts threaten global progress on everything from heart disease to H.I.V. — and could affect American drug companies, too.
Plus, Trump’s military parade, and some advice for finding calm in the chaos.
Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.
In a candid interview, former Mayor Bill de Blasio strenuously argued that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo should not be elected to lead New York City: “He is a vindictive person,” Mr. de Blasio said.
The two front-runners in the New York City mayor’s race, Andrew M. Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani, traded barbs over their records, immigration and a host of other issues.
The appointments of at least two of the experts are likely to draw an uproar from pro-vaccine groups for their criticism of federal scientists and the Biden administration’s Covid vaccine policies.
How to make sense of all the vaccine policy changes.
With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.
A new study shows how the technology deployed in Covid vaccines helped scientists coax the virus out of hiding.
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo now faces a Justice Department inquiry over whether he lied to Congress about actions he took during the Covid pandemic.
El secretario de Salud, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dijo el martes que la vacuna ya no figuraría en el calendario de vacunación infantil. La actualización de los CDC contradice su política.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.
From the first winning word (gladiolus) to the use of fast-paced spell-offs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has endured for 100 years.
Esto es lo que nos dicen los datos sobre los riesgos de la covid para los niños y los beneficios de la vacunación.
Here’s what the data tells us about Covid’s risks to children — and the benefits of vaccination.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the vaccine would not be included as part of the immunization schedule for healthy children.
The 38-story building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan will be turned into 1,250 apartments.
In a deeply personal speech, Ms. Adams, who is running for mayor, spoke about her father’s death from Covid in 2020. Mr. Cuomo “failed him” as governor, she said.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to return the nation to a time when he believes Americans were healthier. Not so fast, many researchers say.
The shifting consensus says more about our politics than the science of Covid.
Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.
Air travel was supposed to be just one part of Niraj Chokshi’s assignment at The Times. But then the pandemic started a wave of news that hasn’t really stopped.
The agency narrowed who can get the shot and added new study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions.
The federal government has taken a reactive approach to aviation policy, often leading to delays in modernization efforts and inadequate staffing and funding.
New vaccines are often evaluated in trials in which some participants receive a placebo. But not all studies can be designed this way.
The ruling preserves, for now, billions of dollars in grant money for 23 states and the District of Columbia.
With new testing requirements, it’s not even clear how new Covid or flu shots can be made available this fall.
The chief executive of Carvana, which sells used cars online, said President Trump’s tariffs could help his company by increasing demand for its vehicles.
The temporary lowering of tariffs may compel some U.S. businesses to order goods that they had held off buying after President Trump raised them to 145 percent.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine.
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
The director of the agency’s Center for Global Health Services was dismissed a month short of qualifying for full federal retirement benefits, according to a lawsuit.
The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.
Dads started spending more time with their kids and realized they liked it.
Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative.
The few domestic companies that still make protective gear for health care workers have clamored for federal intervention. But they worry President Trump’s trade war with China won’t help.
A Republican House chairman renewed a request to the Justice Department to prosecute Mr. Cuomo for allegedly making false statements to Congress.
Timmy Reen bien podría ser un caso médico único: un hombre con un trastorno grave que trabajaba en un entorno impredecible y de alto riesgo, totalmente inadecuado para sus compulsiones.
Some physicians agree to patients’ requests for unproven treatment or altered vaccine schedules.
An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.
The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.
Is it any wonder the country is revisiting faith?
For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his secret was forced out in the open.
The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.
Only a small portion of the city’s restaurants have applied for permits to set up dining structures under new regulations. Owners say the process is complex and expensive.
The Trump administration abruptly cut states’ access to Covid pandemic funding for school programs, saying they’d had enough time to spend it.
D.I.Y. influencers indulge our most ambitious housing fantasies — and cash in on them.
A coalition of states sued over the Trump administration’s unexpected move to cut off the funds, which they said imperiled everything from childhood vaccination programs to opioid addiction treatment.
The case is among the last stemming from the 2022 trucker protests, which spawned many other criminal cases, lawsuits and a public inquiry.
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.