Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s new CIA director has weighed into the contentious debate saying a lab leak was “most likely”.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing took place on Wednesday, an Akron Press Club panel spoke on Trump's pick, other topical issues.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

Ohio students' reading and math scores still haven't recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new report.

TOLEDO, Ohio — It has been five years since Covid-19 was officially declared a Global Emergency by the World Health Organization. As of Jan. 2025, more than 7 million people have died from the virus. Dr. Brian Kaminski, VP of medical affairs for ProMedica, said one of the biggest changes is how health care providers communicate with patients.

A Glendale woman has been sentenced to nine years for a COVID-19 healthcare fraud scheme, involving false respiratory test claims, resulting in $46.7 million in fraud.

Although long-term nursing home stay or death decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend slowed during the pandemic across all racial and ethnic groups.

Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

In contrast to the lockdowns imposed in many countries around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese authorities issued health advisories and counted on citizens to follow them voluntarily.

AISD said the latest testing cycle of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, showed that AISD student scores were higher than state, peer-districts, national charter students,