The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. extended his gratitude to outgoing United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator to the Philippines Gustavo González over his help during the COVID-19 pandemic and engagements related to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

In a video interview, the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown’s School of Public Health explains why another pandemic is on the horizon — and why that needn’t induce panic.

The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out there and how they are evolving and spreading.

Bill Gates said in a recent interview that the chance of another pandemic in the next 4 years is between 10% and 15%.

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. thanked outgoing United Nations representative Gustavo González on Friday, January 31, during his final day of service in the Philippines, citing strengthened UN support during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Bangsamoro transition.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation’s deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he suggested had undermined the agency’s effectiveness.

Today in History for Feb. 15:

Reuters is collecting daily COVID-19 infections and deaths data for 240 ... 8 days and has reported more than 73,452,000 since the pandemic began. We want to know where infections are trending ...

The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria has led Iran-allied factions in neighboring Iraq to reconsider their push for U.S. forces to exit the country, multiple Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press.

Jake Rademacher's new film, "Brothers After War," sees the filmmaker reconnect with the American troops with whom he embedded two decades prior for the documentary "Brothers at War."