Editorial: COVID anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks

Editorial: COVID anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks

It’s been five years since the world came to a sudden halt. Outbreaks of a deadly coronavirus — first in China, then in Italy and Iran, and then seemingly everywhere at once — prompted the World Health Organization to declare…

Texas doctor reflects on working through the pandemic, 5 years after COVID emerged

It’s been over five years since COVID-19 began spreading across the U.S. The virus killed more than a million Americans and reshaped our entire society. Our new series will bring reflections from people, in their own words, who lived and worked through the pandemic. We start with Dr. Colleen Bridger, who oversaw the public health response in San Antonio for nearly two years during the pandemic.

After COVID, Texas is less prepared for the next pandemic

Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.