COVID-19

Policymakers have long grappled with how to handle experiments that might generate potentially dangerous viruses. Now, officials are considering whether oversight needs to be expanded.

After nearly a decade of service leading the Ingham County Health Department, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, Linda Vail is just weeks away from stepping down from as health officer.

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

While highly transmissible, MSU infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Gulick says experts aren’t too concerned about the XBB.1.5 strain dramatically increasing the number of tragic outcomes.

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

Public health officials want more Americans to get the latest COVID vaccine booster. Only 35% of people over 65 have gotten the shot, though 75% of COVID deaths are among people in this age group.

People are gathering indoors for the holidays, and there's been an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The federal government says you should test often to try to prevent the spread of the virus.

Many people reported a distortion in their sense of time during the pandemic, but the individual experience is highly dependent on a range of factors from emotional state to culture.

The CDC is advising people to practice indoor masking in nearly a tenth of U.S. counties, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses sweep the country.

Michigan officials are celebrating a new 750-million-dollar investment from the drugmaker Pfizer into its Kalamazoo-area manufacturing facility.