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Coronavirus

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Infectious Diseases

NIH Awards $57.5 Million to Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories

November 9, 2026

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Health & Medicine

As Flu Season Approaches, BU Launches Flu, COVID Vaccine Clinics for Students, Faculty, Staff

October 8, 2026

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Infectious Diseases

Measles, Cholera, and Mpox: BU-Based Outbreak Tracker Monitors World’s Most Dangerous Infectious Diseases

May 18, 2026

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Excess Deaths

Why Does the US Have Higher Death Rates than Other Wealthy Nations?

May 8, 2026

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COVID Vaccines

Big Majority of Young Adults Are Pro-COVID Vaccine, Driven to Protect Themselves and Community, BU Study Finds

March 5, 2026

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Research

Best of The Brink 2025: A Selection of BU’s 10 Most-Read, Liked, and Shared Science and Research Stories

December 16, 2025

COVID and Flu

Should You—and Can You—Get a COVID-19 Shot This Fall?

September 24, 2025

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Vaccines

What to Make of the Recent COVID Vaccine Guidance Changes—and Will You Be Eligible for a Shot This Fall?

May 28, 2025

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NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

May 27, 2025

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Infectious Diseases

Scientists Study People Who Never Had COVID

March 17, 2025

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Campus Life

It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses

March 12, 2025

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Student Life

Photos from 2020: A Reminder of How COVID Transformed BU

March 11, 2025

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Pandemics

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? 5 Reasons to Feel Confident—and 5 to Be Worried

March 11, 2025

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Excess Deaths

More Americans Aged 25 to 44 Are Dying Younger. BU Research Helps Explain Why

February 5, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

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NEIDL

West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher Is Taking On Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses—and He Plans to Win

November 21, 2024

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Kilachand Awards

2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

November 13, 2024

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Infectious Diseases

BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with NIH Grant

October 29, 2024

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

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University News

BU Will Provide COVID Boosters, Flu Shots to Students, Faculty, and Staff

September 19, 2024

BU Will Provide COVID Boosters, Flu Shots to Students, Faculty, and Staff