A mask lies on a sidewalk. It’s hard to believe it's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in any other ...

Executive function scores in children dropped following the onset of the COVID pandemic and remained below pre-pandemic ...

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. Nearly five years after Covid-19 ...

Achievement is still lower for kids who were toddlers during the pandemic—even though they didn't experience school closures.

Ohio State's athletic department has a new option to repay the loan it received from the university for revenue losses due to ...

For decades, public health responses to infectious diseases have focused primarily on the biology of pathogens: how viruses ...

Unlike previous economic downturns, the COVID pandemic created a crisis that disrupted both education and employment, abruptly halting young people’s emerging careers and clouding their hopes for the ...

Babies born during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are heading to preschool and kindergarten, and experts are waiting anxiously to see its impact on the young learners. Concerns about cognitive ...

Brian D. Taylor is a professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, Eric Morris is a professor of city and regional planning at Clemson University and Sam ...

Health officials are alarmed by more than 50 confirmed human cases of a bird flu variant across seven states this year, with a new case confirmed this week in a California child without known contact ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to ...