The COVID-19 pandemic began five years ago, seemingly all at once. Treatments quickly became available, primarily because of federally funded basic research. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis ...

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, on March 11, 2020, declared a state of emergency over a new respiratory virus. At the time there had been nine cases reported in Arizona. The same day that Ducey issued his ...

World Health Organization officials first learned about a cluster of cases of pneumonia in the Hubei Province of China on Dec. 31, 2019. This represented the initial report of what soon became known ...

March 11 (UPI) --Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The novel coronavirus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, began as a "cluster of ...

COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.2 million lives in the U.S. and over 7 million worldwide, though excess death estimates suggest the toll is much higher. The pandemic caused widespread economic, ...

5 Years Later: What Caused COVID-19? The World Health Organization called COVID-19 a pandemic for the first time five years ago today. The origin of COVID-19 is still unknown, though the leading ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Five years ago, what was then a little-known virus that emerged halfway across the world barreled into East Tennessee. COVID-19 brought a global pandemic with far-reaching ...