Pandemic

It’s a well-established fact that children’s and teens’ mental health took a hit during the pandemic. But new research suggests that teen girls in particular are suffering in unprecedented ways. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in early February 2023 found that, in 2021,…

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Map of Waquoit Bay showing locations of the BayWatcher Citizen Science and System-Wide Monitoring Programs run by the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (A). The green shading (A) represents the 1951 eelgrass extent adapted from Costa et al. (1992), and the pink shading (A) represents the 2019–2022 eelgrass extent…

Were a space alien to have visited the U.S. in late 2020, it might have gotten a very skewed idea about the employee-employer relationship in the world of corporate America. Companies were sending their white collar workers money to buy desks and chairs for their work-from-home offices, and gift baskets…

The Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing program in Illinois was launched in December 2020 through a partnership between the Center for Childhood Resilience at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago and the Illinois State Board of Education. Its primary goal is to equip schools with resources…

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. When the Covid-19 pandemic reached US shores roughly three years ago this month, it changed everything, including how we handled the medical needs of those who were…

Friday 17 February 2023 5:00 pm Ofgem has announced it will almost double the allowance it grants energy suppliers to recover some of the bad debt costs from the pandemic, a move which will increase consumer bills. The pandemic left many customers in Britain not being able to pay their…

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Facepalm: Praveen Seshadri, founder of the "no-code development platform" AppSheet, has left Google at the end of a three-year mandatory retention period after his company was acquired by Mountain View. The reason, Seshadri now explains,…

Over 3 decades, Gerard Mikell watched his neighbors grow sicker and sicker. Toddlers were developing severe allergies. Children were struggling to breathe. Teens were in and out of the hospital. And to Mikell, it seemed obvious who was responsible. Mikell had grown up in northern Charleston, SC, where red maples…

It is inevitable that there will be a next influenza pandemic in humanity's future. When it will occur and the identity of the culprit influenza strain are not fully answerable questions. There are myriad different avian influenza viruses constantly circulating, mutating, and regrouping in their natural waterfowl hosts. As such,…