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At some point, hopefully soon, infections from the latest variant to emerge during the Covid-19 pandemic will subside, and it will be easy for many Americans to believe that they made it through another surge unscathed. But in fact, we don’t have a simple way of measuring the long-term impact of Omicron.
 

Conventional wisdom held that distrust of health systems and misinformation kept Covid vaccines from going into arms in Black communities. But new evidence shows that hesitancy there waned faster than in white communities — which could inform future appeals about new treatments.
 

COVID shutdowns limited the spread of influenza in 2019–2020. Several factors could mean this season will be more severe.
 

Tonia Bullard has been a contact tracer in Philadelphia since 2020, and she’s never been as busy as she is now.
 

Earlier this month, as many as 1 million COVID test kits expired in a state-run warehouse in Florida. The Food and Drug Administration recently determined that, despite expiration dates on the test kits, the tests are still salvageable and will be rolled out into communities.
 

Two years since the first lockdown in China, there have been great strides to combat COVID-19, but confusion and questions remain.
 

Their goal is to prepare everyone, from principals to PTA presidents, to counter misinformation with empathy and, ultimately, to move more people to seek out the lifesaving vaccine.
 

It’s too soon to know if Covid’s omicron variant will hasten the end of the nearly two-year-long Covid-19 pandemic. But some experts say that when it comes to contagiousness, omicron could be the “most transmissible the virus can get.”
 

Free tests and free masks are finally here — after some public health experts have been calling for them since omicron was first detected around Thanksgiving or even earlier. But the tests and masks might not arrive in Americans’ hands until the end of the month.
 

Omicron is still wreaking havoc in parts of the country, but infectious disease experts are optimistic that relief is around the corner.
 

Sex differences in Covid death rates vary widely from state to state, suggesting they are rooted in behavior as well as biology.
 

In the coming weeks, millions of Americans will receive a set of at-home COVID-19 tests by mail, after a federal government order form launched Tuesday. The tests, while extremely useful, are part of the reason why coronavirus case tallies only represent a fraction of the virus’s true toll, experts say.