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The COVID-19 economic downturn is likely to be deeper and more prolonged than any since before World War II, says University of Rochester economist Narayana Kocherlakota. He explains why in this Q&A.

Researchers at the University of Rochester’s New York Influenza Center of Excellence, one of five such centers of excellence in the world, are launching a new study to determine if and when a person could be re-infected with the novel coronavirus and whether some people have pre-existing immunity.

An Emergency Medicine team from the University’s Strong Memorial Hospital has returned from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

America’s individualistic outlook toward health care has shaped the country’s health care policy and system—and not for the better, according to physician and historian Mical Raz, the Charles E. and…

April 1, 2020 With masks over their faces, members of the American Red Cross remove a victim of the Spanish Flu in 1918 from a house in St. Louis, Missouri.…

In an effort to protect students living on campus from COVID-19, the University has taken proactive steps to provide separate living spaces for undergraduates who have to remain in residential…

The $2 trillion stimulus plan signed by the president likely won’t be adequate to save the US economy from collapse, according to Rochester economics professor Narayana Kocherlakota, a former president…

Is the COVID-19 pandemic a precursor for our planet’s future under climate change? Yes, says Adam Frank, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University, in an analysis for…

Medical Center leaders shared multiphase plans for what our hospitals would do to increase capacity for the likely surge in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in the Rochester region. Strong Memorial…

Social distancing, according to infectious disease experts, is one of the best ways to try to slow the spread of COVID-19. But what about its psychological consequences? Harry Reis, a…