Pandemic

In the blink of an eye, we're down to our last month of 2022. And boy, has it been a ride. It's been a year full of adaptations as we transition back to normalcy. The world is slowly opening up again and it's beginning to feel a lot like pre-pandemic…

Jessica May Walker Corey Rives In this digital age, it’s surprising to find greeting card aisles at every grocery store, drugstore, and big box retailer in the U.S. While mom-and-pop card and gift stores struggled during the pandemic, the market is on an upswing and projected to reach 13.4 billion…

The Philippine Star December 17, 2022 | 11:00am According to EO 8 signed by the President on Dec. 9, the percentage of net earnings to be declared and remitted by the DBP to the national government for Calendar Year (CY) 2021 is adjusted from 50 percent of its annual net…

China’s consumers have been buying supplies to prepare for the worst, leading to many products selling out. The Chinese medicine Liánhuā Qīngwēn (连花清瘟), COVID test kits, and thermometers are among the products that people have been stockpiling, with many selling out on ecommerce sites such as Taobao. In addition to…

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,…