Pandemic

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…

Restaurants have hailed news that its VAT rate is to return to 9% as “common sense”.  During the pandemic, VAT for the hospitality sector was cut from 13.5% to 9%, as it struggled to cope with the chaos of COVID restrictions.  In 2023, the VAT returned to 13.5% and many…

Scientists have decoded the Swiss genome of the 1918 flu virus from a century-old specimen, revealing early adaptations for human infection. Scientists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have successfully decoded the genome of the influenza virus that caused the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland, using a preserved specimen from…

The Pandemic Aged Everyone’s Brain—Even in Healthy People A study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain aging was not linked to infection status By Gemma Conroy & Nature magazine iMrSquid/Getty Images The brains of healthy people aged faster during the COVID-19 pandemic than did the brains of people analysed…

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A version of this story appeared in Esquire’s entertainment newsletter, t he Cliff-Hanger . Sign up here to receive weekly criticism of the movie or television show of the moment shipped directly to your in-box. Weird question: Do you remember the pandemic? It wasn’t that long ago that we were…

While inflation may have since been tamed, Statistics Canada’s monthly inflation figures show that the pandemic-era price hikes survived Published Jul 21, 2025 Last updated Jul 21, 2025 8 minute read A customer looks for produce at a grocery store in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Photo by Justin…

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