The U.S. death rate has dropped to prepandemic levels as COVID-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to research published Wednesday. The death rate fell by 3.8 percent in 2024, ...

Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else happened on that day.

United States overdose deaths in 2025 fell to levels similar to before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overdose deaths for the ...

SARS-CoV-2 infection was also implicated in new-onset chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, and end-stage renal disease.