Pandemic

The gunman accused of murdering 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket seemed to fit a familiar pattern. Isolated and bored during the pandemic, he had become increasingly radicalized by consuming white-supremacist content online. He had previously threatened a shooting at his high school and been sent for a mental health…

Aircraft operated by Emirates, at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. Christopher Pike | Bloomberg | Getty Images DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai's Emirates Airline narrowed its losses to $1.1 billion in the year to March, even as soaring jet fuel costs threaten to overshadow a recovery in travel demand.  The world's largest long haul…

Curly-haired cutie! Drake and Sophie Brussaux’s son, Adonis, arrived in October 2017 and made his social media debut more than two years later. The rapper posted pictures of himself and the toddler in March 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, writing, “I love and miss my beautiful family and friends and…

In the pandemic there were, of course, brief glimpses of hope – the furlough, the vaccine rollout, the applause for our heroes. - but there were also many failures Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Image: Getty Images) Opposite Parliament, on the other side of the Thames, is the Covid Memorial Wall.…

How did the simple act of counting TV viewers become so controversial? David Kenny thinks he knows. The CEO of Nielsen has been under fire for months, ever since some of his company’s biggest customers — the nation’s TV networks — began to complain about how Nielsen tabulated viewers during…

Shanghai Health Commission reported a total of 227 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases this morning, Friday, May 13. Of those, 167 were converted from asymptomatic cases, so are not counted as new, leaving a total of 60 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. A further 1,869 local asymptomatic cases were also reported.…

An estimated 60,000 NHS workers are believed to be living with post-traumatic stress as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. NHS Charities Together also found nine in 10 workers (90%) say it will take them years to recover. Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters (73%) have expressed concerns about…

HONG KONG — North Korea is raising its anti-epidemic measures to the maximum level, state media reported Thursday, as it confirmed its first coronavirus infection after claiming to be virus-free since the start of the pandemic.  Tests of samples collected on Sunday from an unspecified number of people with fevers…

Every time China’s COVID-19 case count surges, the country’s medical workers are the first into the breach. In the two months since cases started spiking in Shanghai, more than 50,000 doctors and nurses from the city and across China have been mobilized to help. They’ve worked day and night to…

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare innovation has been occurring at an unprecedented rate. A growing focus on technology -- and the ways it can help improve patient care and the provider experience -- is now at the forefront, and many organizations are reexamining how they can implement…