WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.” They've...

The Trump administration has not budgeted funds for global health security, so the CDC plans to scale back health security activities in 39 of 49 countries.

Health and Human Services is one of several federal agencies to maintain the freeze on their own.

It's a common cliche: "there's no playbook" for a specific kind of challenge. But what about a dynamic in which there is a playbook, but it's not used?

Chronic underfunding, changing lines of command and confusion over allocations meet states turning to the national stockpile of emergency medical equipment.

The Obama administration walked incoming Trump administration officials through a hypothetical scenario in which a pandemic worse than the 1918 Spanish flu shut down cities like Seoul and London in

The program had worked with labs in Wuhan, China, and around the world to detect deadly viruses that could jump from animals to humans.

Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters...