March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective trauma that New Englanders faced together. For an upcoming story to mark the anniversary, the Globe is asking readers to ...

From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

Jennifer Nuzzo has been worrying about the bird flu — since 2004. After all, it’s her job to worry. An epidemiologist, Nuzzo heads the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health, ...

WHEN COVID-19 struck five years ago, hundreds of thousands died because of a lack of oxygen. Even in rich countries, demand for oxygen overwhelmed hospitals in the first wave of the pandemic. In low- ...