Pandemic

UK-listed companies in the FTSE Construction and Materials sector issued eight profit warnings during the first six months of 2025, compared to just two in H1 2024. This is the highest total since the covid-19 pandemic in 2020, according to EY-Parthenon’s latest Profit Warnings report. Listed firms in the sector…

In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins of COVID. The report concluded that although we don’t know conclusively where the virus that caused the pandemic…

Collecting cards is absolute hell. It’s been that way since the pandemic. It was around this time thousands of people stopped looking at cards as collectibles, and instead took to them as legalized gambling — not only driving prices up to astronomical levels, but making it almost impossible for regular…

Dar es Salaam:  The United Republic of Tanzania has been awarded a significant grant of US$25 million from the Pandemic Fund to enhance its national health security and pandemic preparedness capacities. In addition to this core funding, the initiative has successfully mobilized US$7 million in co-investment and US$6.7 million in…

COVID-19 did more than just change the world of healthcare and how people interact; it revolutionized academia. The pandemic forced a shift to remote learning almost overnight, starting in the spring of 2020. Although the pandemic affected all levels of learning, higher education was the sector most significantly impacted. The…

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I n early 2023, Rocco Casagrande, a scientist and former United Nations weapons inspector, brought a small container to the White House for a briefing with American government officials. It was filled with a dozen easily available chemical ingredients that Anthropic’s flagship chatbot, Claude, recommended as precursors to trigger another…

The rhythmic rumble of the “L” isn’t a death rattle — yet. But Chicago’s public transit systems are set to get gut-punched early next year by a funding deficit in the hundreds of millions of dollars. If state lawmakers don’t agree to allocate more money to public transit, branches on…

On May 12, 2020, an American astronaut beamed a vital message down to Earth. His home country, and half the world’s population, was in lockdown – an unprecedented response to a pandemic. Commander Chris Cassidy had a vantage point that was literally above it all. A 250-mile-high view, in fact.…

Over the last two years, a quiet miracle has been playing out across the United States: People are killing each other far less often. Murder and other types of violent crime spiked across the country in 2020, when the pandemic closed down schools and recreation centers and the police murder…