This year marks five years since the COVID pandemic began. Maybe forcing ourselves to go back, to remember, can remind us of the dignity and kindness we owe one another, writes.

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them. Credit...Katherine Lam Supported by By Gina Kolata Five ...

Don’t be fooled by some social-media revisionist historians who would have us believe that COVID-19 was “mild”—it was one of ...

But we’re living in the branch of history it created. And its contours are only now coming into view. Opinion Five years after the pandemic began, Donald Trump is president again, but he’s ...

“And everybody just decides where on that curve they decide the pandemic is over.” For me, it was early in 2022. My mother — in her mid-70s, with a history of asthma — called to say she ...

Unfortunately, both current evidence and history suggest we may be stuck with ... in public these days is ruder than before the COVID-19 pandemic," Pew Research reported last week.

Five years ago this month, the world stopped. Here is a look back at how we reacted in the early days and months of the ...

Explore how the memory of the COVID-19 pandemic is fading, and how Trump's administration is dismantling democracy and economic stability.