Pandemic

U.S. adults were still taking around 700 fewer steps per day as of December 2021, compared to their pre-pandemic norm, new research shows. Photo by Daniel Reche/Pixabay If you feel like the pandemic made you a permanent couch potato, a new study shows you're not alone: Well after lockdown measures…

The extended stay segment has shown great resiliency through the pandemic and in challenging economic times as a strong performer, outpacing many transient hotels and garnering great interest from franchisors and investors. The demand and emergence of new mid-price and economy hotels in the U.S. extended stay hotel segment signals…

On his first day working in aged care, Pratik Sigdel was told by a resident to go back to where he came from. He had arrived in the country less than a year earlier from Nepal — and entered a job where racism became a part of his everyday professional…

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The pandemic’s formal end on May 11 marks neither victory nor peace: It’s a cessation of hostilities with a dangerous virus that is still very much with us. To maintain such an uneasy truce, Americans will have to stay protected enough to prevent humanity’s viral foe from staging a break-out…

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The internet watchdog Stanford Internet Observatory launched a wide-scale effort during the pandemic to scrub social media platforms of disfavored COVID-related views regardless of whether the posts were true, according to the latest installment of the “Twitter Files.” Internal emails unveiled on Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi show how the…

At the height of the global pandemic, the Pentagon in August 2021 decreed that all U.S. troops must get the COVID-19 vaccine, then launched a logistical push to get the shot to every service member stationed anywhere in the world. Last December, amid heightened clashes over the vaccine mandates and…

The changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our society are still being felt, and so are the changes that it has had on our language. A close up photo of a page from a dictionary. Credit: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash This month marks the beginning of my third…

A very Irish-American president finally got to experience the most Irish presidential tradition after years of pandemic restrictions canceled the annual St. Patrick's Day toast in the Capitol with Irish leadership. President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took the opportunity to flex their shared Irish heritage at Friday's…