Pandemic

The journey begins in Graz, Austria, in early 2020 as Zheng Lu and her girlfriend, Zoe, decide to fly back to China during lockdown. When it comes to China and the COVID-19 pandemic, Zheng Lu isn’t interested in the overtly political. Instead, she offers a more quotidian take on her…

Source: careerservices.fas.harvard.edu The pandemic has mostly subsided and we are slowly slipping back into our old routines of commuting to work every day, barely finding a few spare minutes to focus on ourselves. As a result, you might have found yourself taking a slightly more laid-back approach to those personal…

By The Canadian Press Thu., Dec. 15, 2022timer2 min. read IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut health officials say there has been a surge of respiratory illnesses across the territory this year. Dr. Sean Watchel, the territory’s chief public health officer, says cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, along with the…

Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are up nearly 60 percent since Thanksgiving. And in a startling twist, for the first time since the advent of Covid vaccines, the majority of those dying of the disease have been vaccinated. You can imagine the fool’s interpretation of this statistic: that vaccines must…

By ROBIN MILLARD, Agence France-Presse Published December 15, 2022 7:50am The World Health Organization said Wednesday it hoped that COVID-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023, as it urged China to share information that could pinpoint how the pandemic started. As the third anniversary of the…

A vigil earlier this year in Lafayette Park, in Washington, D.C., for nurses who died during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images Long COVID was cited in the death certificates of at least 3,544 people in the U.S. in the first 2.5 years of the pandemic,…

The outdoor ice rink at Seoul Plaza opens next week for the first time in almost three years since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. It opens on Dec. 21 for 54 days.  Workers prepare the ice rink at Seoul Plaza on Monday. People can skate from 10 a.m. to…

Washington D.C. 12 December 2022 (PAHO) – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr Carissa F. Etienne, has called on countries to redouble efforts towards achieving universal health as they begin to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic. “This region urgently needs to act to reverse the socioeconomic and health…

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare for the District of Columbia and other major cities that public transit was a lifeline for essential workers and that even modest fares could be a burden to them. So the nation’s capital is introducing a groundbreaking plan: It will begin offering free bus fares…

In an action movie, they would be fighting each other. They would be the good guy and the villain, the yin and yang. The real question is, who is who. For their supporters, the other one is the problem. Elon Musk and Dr. Anthony Fauci are, in a way, the…