Pandemic

Bill Gates, who will become a grandfather early next year, weighs in on technologies being evaluated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that may help address some global problems. Getty Images Despite all the problems facing the world now–Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic, extreme weather–Bill Gates is…

By Nilanjana Bose, MD, as told to Susan Bernstein I am an adult rheumatologist, so I see patients who are 18 and above, with the whole gamut of rheumatologic conditions. Every patient I see is different. For patients with classic psoriatic disease, skin psoriasis symptoms often occur before their arthritis…

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…