WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named a virus spreading from Wuhan, China, COVID-19. On Feb. 11, 2020, the International Committee on Taxonomy of ...

GENEVA -- The World Health Organization has announced an official name of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other countries: COVID-19. "Under agreed ...

The organization has faced mounting criticism over its handling of COVID-19. The World Health Organization has faced mounting criticism in recent weeks over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Physician and science communicator Kristen Panthagani talks about why public trust in vaccines has fallen since the COVID-19 ...

Five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, the World Health Organization is still reporting deaths from the virus. More than 3,000 people died in the last month, adding to the more ...

Life for some is at a standstill, while front line workers face a new normal. Three months ago, reports surfaced out of China that a cluster of pneumonia cases in the central city of Wuhan may be due ...

COVID-19 patients are treated inside a non-invasive ventilation system at the municipal field hospital Gilberto Novaes in Manaus, Brazil, on May 18, 2020. [AP Photo/Felipe Dana] Five years ago, on ...

“Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization ...