Public Health

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is beginning to spread in California, offering a preview of how the battle of the pandemic is going to change as officials move to protect a shrinking minority who remain at risk because they have not been vaccinated. The Delta variant may be twice...

Tennessee has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the US, thanks in part to partisan politics and weak healthcare systems.

With a fast vaccine rollout, Israel had thought it was freed of the coronavirus. Then the Delta variant came.

A new book from two Washington Post reporters pulls back the curtain on the chaos and dysfunction caused by Trump's sudden illness.

Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. President Joe Biden may have already conceded that the U.S. will fall short of reaching his July 4 goal to have vaccinated at least 70% of the adult population against COVID, but the stakes for advancing the nation’s vaccine drive remain high as the Delta variant—the highly transmissible and concerning strain of the virus that first emerged in India—swiftly makes inroads across the country.

Cole Beasley is the latest to prove that while there is a vaccine for COVID-19 there is not one for COVID-stupid. This week the Buffalo Bills’ scrappy little receiver announced he planned to refuse to comply with regulations negotiated by the union that represents NFL players -- regulations that give fully vaccinated players more freedom to return to normal than non-vaccinated players.

Dr. Jesse Bloom said coronavirus sequences were a "gold mine" for scientists researching the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jesse Bloom, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, was able to retrieve the data through Google Cloud. The researcher says the data bolsters evidence that the coronavirus was circulating in Wuhan, China, before a December outbreak linked to a wet market in the city. His discovery,...