Pandemic

Heading into this year’s upfronts, the auto industry is poised for a big comeback. While pandemic supply chain issues made it difficult for automakers to fulfill demand, the sector is revving back up to its former efficiency — with car production and sales expected to recover by up 5% in…

This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet.  During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sudden shift to remote work for many launched a wave of think pieces about whether the trend would keep up once the threat of the coronavirus was less imminent. Now, as the Biden…

KEY POINTSHealth experts urge those at risk of severe illness from influenza or COVID-19 to get vaccinated right away.Data from the US suggests that this flu season will be more severe and arrive much earlier than last year.Australia has already recorded more than 21,000 cases of flu this year, far…

Is politics running roughshod over public health policy? If so, it's clearly the wrong lesson to have taken from three years of a pandemic. Published Apr 09, 2023  •  Last updated 22 hours ago  •  3 minute read Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer, Dr. Saqib Shahab. Photo by TROY FLEECE /Regina…

The latest data on the US labor market marks a particularly notable moment: Prime-age labor force participation—the share of 25-to-54-year-old Americans at work—has risen above the peak set in 2020, immediately before the pandemic. The result shows just how remarkable the recovery from the pandemic recession has been. After the…

The typical timing of seasonal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemics (October to April) was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published in the April 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Sarah Hamid, Ph.D., from the CDC in Atlanta,…

Group of 20, IMF and the World Bank launched Debt Service Suspension Initiative in 2020 to ease pressure on poorer nations as Covid-19 raged China held 30 per cent of the claims but backed 63 per cent of payment deferrals, according to study by Johns Hopkins’ China Africa Research Initiative…

The U.S. experienced an unprecedented number of group A streptococcal infections in children from October to December of 2022, which should alert physicians to check for the potentially deadly infectious disease as the country moves out of the pandemic, according to research published by UTHealth Houston. The study, led by…

It’s no secret the pandemic hit many students hard – emotionally, academically, or both. Test score data shows precipitous drops in reading and math skills. Thousands of students are “missing” from the public school population. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in February detailing increased…

Predicting and understanding disease outbreaks doesn't just involve epidemiology. It takes math, too. For centuries, mathematicians have tackled questions related to epidemics and pandemics, along with potential responses to them. For instance, 18th-century Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli is credited with developing the first mathematical epidemiology model, which focused on analyzing the effects of…