Pandemic

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…

Data: HUD Annual Homelessness Assessment Reports to Congress; Note: Unsheltered count was not conducted in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic; Chart: Axios VisualsStreet homelessness in the U.S. has increased by 25% since 2017, and most major metros don't have enough or the right kind of shelter to accommodate people…

HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee—U.S. hotel gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) exceeded the pre-pandemic comparable and was the highest since October 2022, according to STR’s February 2023 P&L data release. EBITDA was the only key bottom-line metric on a per-available-room basis to come in lower than February 2019. U.S, Hotel Performance…

As we mark Stress Awareness Month in April, I know there’s so much to be stressed out—mass shootings, wars around the world, the pandemic’s long-term effects and the daily stresses of living and working in the 21st century. I’m sure you’ve got your list. Everyone experiences stress at different points…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Nearly 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the main reason for their withdrawal. The poll is Japan's first official comprehensive probe into the prevalence of "hikikomori", or "shut-ins"—a phenomenon…