Pandemic

Popcorn in a movie theater. Photo: Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images The box office is showing signs of life again after a stagnant few years due to the pandemic and patrons are returning to a revamped movie theater experience. The big picture: Hundreds of theaters have shuttered since the…

From Lululemon’s meteoric rise to the endless wave of Chinese athleisure brands like Particle Fever and Maia Active, women’s activewear has surged in popularity over the past few years. It’s a generational response to the global fitness trend, with experienced and first-time gym-goers alike hitting the exercise floor to participate in…

On the campaign trail, then-candidate Joe Biden promised to reform the country’s immigration system by undoing many of the policies put in place by former President Donald Trump.  Now, more than two years into President Biden’s term, his administration is reportedly considering reinstating the practice of detaining families that cross the U.S.…

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has released its report on the conduct of temporary telemedicine during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79 million people from February 2020 to January 2023. Of the 36.61 million…

This is the fourth article in “Recovery” — a series of reports on how communities across China are attempting to move on from three years of strict pandemic-control measures. Read part 1, part 2, and part 3.  For several days in mid-January, Zheng Chengyang cruised along Route 13 in Laos,…

With the never-ending prospect of a recession looming, it seems the one true certainty is that we all need to make peace with living with uncertainty. But uncertainty breeds anxiety. At the onset of the pandemic, many of us responded to our anxieties by cutting back on spending. But as…

With the end of the pandemic, cases of gender-based violence against women online have not decreased. “The data is not encouraging at all,” explains Annachiara Sarto, Director of CRO Cyber Rights Organization. “In fact, according to a recent study by Amnesty International, cases increased by 70% during and immediately after…

Three years ago, on March 11, 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the coronavirus that causes COVID was spreading worldwide and that the outbreak was officially a pandemic. At the time, there were more than 118,000 confirmed cases of COVID and 4,291…

As Silicon Valley Bank collapsed before our eyes on Thursday, a founder told me that the world felt like it did when COVID-19 first bared its teeth. I scoffed at his analogy at first: Are we really using a still ongoing and devastating pandemic to describe the fall of a…

Dr. Anthony Fauci responded to Elon Musk's tweet calling for the government to prosecute the now-retired health official over the COVID-19 pandemic. Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a nearly four-decade span that included the COVID-19 pandemic, has come under…