Pandemic

The unprecedented number of stressors in the lives of children and teens — further compounded by a pandemic — and the fragile state of youth mental health has not gone unnoticed by Naperville police and local youth nonprofit KidsMatter. On Thursday evening, the two agencies and other local mental health…

Discord hasn't been as active in fighting pandemic misinformation as social networks, but it appears ready to change its tune. According to Protocol, Discord is updating its community policies to ban any misinformation that poses a "significant risk" of physical or social harm, including claims that threaten "public health." A…

At a glance: Full-year revenue hit $2.5 billion, less than 1% year-over-year growthRevenue for Q4 2021 was $89 million, a 4.7% increase on same period last year73% of 2021 revenue generated overseasKorean mobile outfit Netmarble has reported its full-year and fourth quarter earnings for the period ended December 31, 2021.…

(CNN)Plummeting Covid-19 case counts across the United States are leading to lifted mask mandates and more conversations about steps toward normalcy -- but more people are dying of the coronavirus now than during most points of the pandemic. More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States…

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Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor get back together after separating for nearly 5 years and give their relationship and marriage a second shot. In a recent interview with Esquire, Ben Stiller revealed that the couple were able to reignite their spark after he moved back in with her and their…

The physicians and scientists of the Urgency of Normal are cherry-picking data in their push to end pandemic precautions, but are getting favorable mainstream media attention and support from wealthy, white communities that never felt the full brunt of Covid-19. Read Full Article » Read More

Mayor Sadiq Khan has decided to return the charge to its pre-pandemic weekday hours of 7am-6pm, having extended it until 10pm as a temporary measure in June 2020 to encourage walking and cycling and discourage car travel. But the charge will remain at £15, rather than returning to £11.50, and…

Alexa Mazzarello/The Globe and Mail In an alternate universe, you would know Chrystia Freeland only as a writer and journalist, as an eminent authority on Vladimir Putin and the oligarchs who feed off him, perhaps eventually as the editor-in-chief of this newspaper or the Financial Times. You would see her…

Feb. 22, 2022 -- The calls kept coming into the National Runaway Safeline during the pandemic: the desperate kids who wanted to bike away from home in the middle of the night, the isolated youths who felt suicidal, the teens whose parents had forced them out of the house. To…