Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Survey: 100,000 nurses have left workforce due to burnout

According to a survey published by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing on last week, a total 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic due to stress, burnout and retirement. By 2027, nearly 900,000 registered nurses are expected to leave the workforce — roughly a fifth of…

Tribune News Service

The latest trends in video games from the 2023 global Game Developers Conference

San Francisco’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) – the global gathering of the greatest creative minds in the games industry – opened its doors for the second time since the pandemic in March 2023.

The Conversation

Covid pandemic likely caused by Wuhan lab leak, US Senate report finds

A 300-page Senate report has concluded that the dominant theory that the virus jumped from animals to humans no longer deserves the ‘presumption of accuracy’

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

What makes me happy now: my pandemic rescue pup

Author Curtis Sittenfeld on falling hopelessly in love with a brave, beautiful and occasionally malodorous chihuahua named Weenie

The Guardian - US

Why are volunteerism rates uneven? Florida, Wyoming explain

The share of Americans who volunteer their time to help charities build houses, serve food, do environmental cleanup, and much else has been on the decline nationwide but nowhere as sharply as in Florida, where only 16% of residents donate their free hours to local organizations, according to the latest…

The Independent UK

School closures should be pandemic 'last resort' - as Irish study reveals limited school spread of Covid-19

HSE study found that less than 3% of close contacts in school with people infected with the Sars-CoV2 virus during the 2020-21 school year had tested positive for Covid-19

Irish Mirror

Over-stretched UK fashion brand Just Hype bought by Birmingham investor in pre-pack deal

82 jobs saved after youth fashion brand badly hit by cost-of-living crisis

Birmingham Post

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Commentary: Don’t curb opioid prescriptions through telemedicine. They’re saving lives

The explosion of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic has been transformative for countless patients who might otherwise be unable to access care. But the Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to roll back telemedicine options for many essential prescriptions. It would be a dangerous move, exacerbating already gaping disparities and imperiling…

Los Angeles Times

David's Bridal files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years

CEO James Marcum said the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted its finances. During that time, the company was still spending on rent on its brick and mortar stores and factories were shut down.

WEKU

World Bank warns Fiji to cut debt urgently or risk stalling pandemic recovery

Fiji must take urgent action to reduce a debt burden that exceeds 90% of gross domestic product or put at risk its recovery from the COVID pandemic and plans for sustainable economic development, the World Bank said on Tuesday.

Reuters

'Time has come': NSW COVID-19 test clinics to close

A once all-too-familiar feature of the COVID-19 pandemic will be consigned to history, as the NSW premier says all pop-up testing clinics will close.

AAP

Top scientists warn ‘the next pandemic is coming and we’re not ready’

Sir John Bell and Sir David King among leading scientists to argue UK is no better prepared than it was in 2020, as new variant in India causes concern

The Independent UK

China’s economy grows 4.5 percent, beating expectations

Latest economic data suggest world’s second-largest economy is firmly on recovery path after end of pandemic curbs.

Al Jazeera

Malaysians face poverty after retirement as pension crisis looms

Many Malaysians dipped into their pension during pandemic, but 81 percent of contributors face poverty in retirement.

Al Jazeera

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Republican report on COVID origins pushes lab leak hypothesis

As U.S. lawmakers continue to seek answers about how the COVID-19 pandemic first began, former Republican staffers are releasing details from their own independent investigations, putting pressure on the Biden administration to declassify sensitive intelligence.

The Conversation

From Trump to Winnie the Pooh: how we use diagnosis as a narrative tool to make sense of dysfunction and deviance

During these pandemic times, the importance of diagnosis is driven home forcefully. Being diagnosed with COVID makes sense of symptoms, determines what we should do about them, and shapes our collective responsibility to the community.

Axios

White House economists: There isn't a "missing worker" problem anymore

It looks as if it simply took time for potential workers to match up with jobs and return to the labor force after the pandemic, White House economists argue.

The Independent UK

More children in London get first choice of primary school amid fall in demand

Falling birth rate and families moving out of the city during pandemic and following Brexit has led to a decline in applications, councils say.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

An earthquake made Makoto Shinkai a disaster artist. Now he's confronting it head-on

LOS ANGELES — Makoto Shinkai knows the 2011 Tohoku earthquake changed him.

The Guardian - AU

Australians face 50% hike in air fares to fly to Europe this year, data suggests

Thirst for ‘revenge’ travel after the Covid pandemic is driving return prices to almost $3,000 to some European cities, booking site says

Daily Mirror

Top scientists warn Brits ‘the next pandemic is coming and we’re not ready’

Experts say Britain is no more prepared for another pandemic as it was three years ago when Covid struck due to defunding of research and dismantling of key services

The Conversation

Predicting epidemics isn't easy. We've created a global dataset to help

The world has recently seen a number of high-profile cross-border disease outbreaks and pandemics. The COVID pandemic and multi-country Mpox (monkeypox) outbreaks are just two examples.

Golf Monthly

'Almost One Third Of Clubs Are Concerned About Their Long-Term Future'

There are increasing concerns that the viability of clubs over the long-term could be under threat post-pandemic

Reuters

Cuban President Diaz-Canel expected to win second term despite crises

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is widely expected to be chosen this week by assembly lawmakers to lead the country for another five years, despite a rocky first term marked by the coronavirus pandemic and a near-unprecedented economic crisis.

Chicago Sun-Times

Prognosis uncertain for Arwady post with Johnson — but city health chief ‘looking forward to the conversation’

Dr. Allison Arwady told the Sun-Times, “I am hopeful to stay on in my role,” but Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson has voiced concerns about the way Chicago Public Schools were reopened during the COVID pandemic.

1 … 212 213 214 215

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations