Pandemic

INDIA Cases of coronavirus are on the surge in India again. At present, there are a total of 312 patients of Covid-19. So far, 12 states and Union Territories have reported cases of the virus with most number of patients in being in Kerala (95). Representative Image (pexels.com) TRENDING NOW…

It was 5 years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm. By the end of April 2020, more than 60,000 Americans had succumbed to the disease that was still shrouded in mystery and uncertainty. Public health experts were struggling to track and slow the spread of the…

The astounding drop in violent crime that began in the 1990s and extended through the mid-2010s is one of the most important — and most underappreciated — good news stories of recent memory. That made its reversal during the pandemic so worrying. In the first full year of the pandemic,…

Republican budget hawks got steamrolled this week as the House passed a bill to advance President Trump's agenda, sending concerns though financial markets about permanently higher U.S. deficit levels. Following the pandemic, the U.S. national debt ratcheted up to a new plateau of around 120 percent of gross domestic product…

Bonnie Morris requires her history students at the University of California, Berkeley, to buy 25-cent blue books for her midterm exams. She wants to be able to see them write in person, often an anomaly on campuses, where typed assignments and assists from artificial intelligence are routine. The squat booklets,…

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In this episode, we discover the story of two lost pioneers of the 1930s: physician and self-taught epidemiologist Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, sanitary…

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The U.S., however, did not participate, in part because of its intention to withdraw from…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 20, May 2025. SignificanceThere is a constant threat of epidemics or pandemics of respiratory viruses. The most common treatment for respiratory viral diseases is to target viral proteins, but viruses can evolve resistance quickly. Host-directed therapy (HDT) can ...Read More

Influencers have typically thrived during shaky times, from the pandemic recession to sky-high inflation. But something is shifting.Why it matters: The backlash against this industry — built on selling aspirational lifestyles — is gaining new momentum as economic uncertainty spikes.Zoom in: Consumer confidence is plunging and the cracks are showing.TikTok…

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Love Letter to a Garden | Debbie Millman Debbie Millman, host of the Design Matters podcast, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, doesn’t have a natural green thumb. But when the pandemic hit, she embraced the challenge and picked up gardening as a new…