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Seeing a psychologist on Medicare? Soon you'll be back to 10 sessions. But we know that's not often enough

From January 1 the number of psychology sessions covered by Medicare will be reduced to ten per year, down from the 20 the government has been subsidising during the pandemic.

The Conversation

COVID recovery committee hail contributions of employees and service users of Lanarkshire employment support organisations

Representatives visited Routes to Work and Remploy in Airdrie as part of inquiry into pandemic's impact on labour market.

Daily Record

Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe pilgrimage returns unrestricted

Mexico's largest religious pilgrimage for the Dec. 12 day of the Virgin of Guadalupe returned without restrictions for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

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Goods pile up in North Korea after trains resume from Russia, think-tank says

Satellite images show goods from Russia appear to be piling up in a North Korean railyard, about a month after trains were reported crossing the border for the first time since the pandemic began, a U.S.-based think-tank said on Monday.

Reuters

Joyous and emotional: inside the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards returned last night after a two-year pandemic-enforced break, in a night that reflected the strength of London’s theatre recovery

Evening Standard

EasyJet chief paid almost £3m despite airline’s £208m loss

Johan Lundgren gets rise of about 273% from 2021, when he received no bonus because of Covid pandemic

The Guardian - UK

China's loosened COVID-19 policies – following years of aggressive lockdowns and quarantines – have left the country vulnerable

After nearly three years of aiming to eliminate COVID-19 through mass lockdowns, robust contact tracing programs and international travel bans, the Chinese government has announced it is rolling back the “zero-COVID” policies that helped suppress the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The Chinese Communist Party announced these changes…

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Free ride: DC unveils bold plan to boost public transit

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare for the District of Columbia and other major cities that public transit was a lifeline for essential workers and that even modest fares could be a burden to them

The Independent UK

Mariah Carey brings her daughter on stage for duet of ‘Away in a Manger’

The song formed part of Carey’s first Christmas show since the pandemic began

The Independent UK

Expensive ‘Avatar’ Sequel Faces Transformed Movie Market

The sequel to movie box office champion "Avatar" arrives in theaters this week, 13 years after the first film, as cinemas try to recover from the pandemic and draw people away from streaming at home. Hollywood's big question about "Avatar: The Way of Water" is whether the follow-up to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Multiple infections could make us much sicker – strep A, RSV and flu are a dangerous mix

The pandemic has changed the seasonal pattern of infectious diseases, and risky, little-understood blends are the result, says Daniela Ferreira, a professor of infection and vaccinology

The Guardian - UK

Fauci says Covid response was hampered by ‘disinformation and political ideology’ in farewell essay

Public health expert often had to battle Trump administration on basics of pandemic response

The Independent UK

How to plan a year of wild human experiences, from Rio's Carnival to Nevada's Burning Man

The year 2022 will be remembered as the first time we traveled farther and more freely since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We ventured across the Atlantic in larger numbers. We braved airport chaos to visit dream destinations, to explore favorite hideouts anew and to see the people we’d…

Tribune News Service

Federal government slashes psychologist visits for Australians seeking mental health treatment

Subsidised visits to psychologists, GPs and allied mental health services will be halved within weeks, with the federal government abandoning a program added at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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US authorities looking to bring back face masks in several cities across the country

Hospitals are getting overwhelmed by the current 'tripledemic', so measures are being looked into

The Independent UK

Nightclubs face higher business rates next year despite sector turmoil

Hackney venue Oslo faces a 376% rise in its rateable value, while Bristol nightclub Gravity has seen its value rise by 102%.

The Canberra Times

We take you behind the scenes as your Christmas mail is sorted

Make sure you know when your Christmas goodies need to be in the post to arrive on time.

Nottingham Post

How Nottingham's hospitals hope to get through challenging winter

Monitoring some patients at home is one of the measures being taken to get through a winter which some say could be more challenging than the pandemic.

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The Independent UK

Elon Musk, who predicted the Covid pandemic would end in April 2020, suggests Fauci should be prosecuted

The world’s wealthiest person endorses right-wing attacks against the public health official in a tweet that also appears to mock nonbinary and transgender people

Chronicle Live

Gosforth TV doctor Ellie Cannon on 'stress' of helping the UK through a pandemic

Dr Ellie Cannon was brought up in Gosforth and now she's spoken about the privilege and responsibility of representing the health service on TV during a pandemic

Manchester Evening News

The ‘lost generation’ of primary school pupils ‘forgotten’ during the pandemic

The gap between Manchester's youngest children and the rest of the country is widening, the first school results since the pandemic reveal

Fortune

In 2022 workers won the return-to-office battle with their bosses

A year-in-review of the hybrid work wars.

The Conversation

Beyond vaccine hesitancy: Understanding systemic barriers to getting vaccinated

The term “vaccine hesitancy” was in wide use years before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The term focuses on individual-level attitudes toward vaccines. Throughout the pandemic, much popular and scholarly discussion about COVID-19 transmission focused on individual-level decisions, making it easy to blame the unvaccinated.

The Conversation

'Polycrisis' may be a buzzword, but it could help us tackle the world's woes

Commentators increasingly warn that the world is tightly bound in a “polycrisis,” a tangled knot of crises spanning global systems. But if we have any hope of escaping it, we must think more carefully about what polycrisis really means.

Reason

Pandemic Repairs Were Supposed To Put D.C. Metro Back on Track. Then It Literally Went Off the Rails.

Putting the district's train system back on track will take more than better bureaucracy.

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