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Doctors often miss depression symptoms for certain groups – a routine screening policy for all adult primary care patients could significantly reduce the gap

Depression is a costly and debilitating condition that profoundly influences a person’s quality of life. In 2020, more than 21 million adults in the U.S. reported having at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. Depression symptoms increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now affect nearly 1…

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She lost four fingers in a car crash. It hasn’t stopped her from creating beautiful sidewalk art

Rebecca LaFlure said she began sidewalk chalking during the pandemic as a way to get out of the house with her then-toddler daughter.

Chicago Sun-Times

Don't mind playing few extra games due to lost opportunities in COVID times: Ish Sodhi

WELLINGTON: The cramped international calendar has been under the lens for some time now but senior New Zealand spinner Ish Sodhi doesn't mind playing a few extra games to compensate for the matches he lost out on during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Schools struggle to staff up for youth mental health crisis

Despite an influx of COVID-19 relief money, school districts across the country have struggled to staff up to address students’ mental health needs that have only grown since the pandemic hit

The Independent UK

Mass public health specialist layoffs

As COVID-19 funds run out, the majority of 4,000 public health specialist contractors are being laid off

Salon

Xi Says China Might Hold Belt and Road Forum Next Year

The conference dedicated to the country’s global trade and infrastructure initiative hasn’t taken place since before the pandemic

Caixin Global

CDC: Home births surged during pandemic

The research is the latest insight into the pandemic’s indirect impact on maternal health at a time when hospitals were grappling with how to stave off an unknown disease.

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Michael Hiltzik: The right wing gets its knives out for California's new medical misinformation law

Painfully aware of how attacks on COVID vaccines and anti-pandemic policies have undermined public health, California enacted a law this year that makes spreading medical misinformation and disinformation about the pandemic grounds for revoking a doctor's license.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Order and the border: Judge is right to strike down Title 42 policy, but challenges loom

At last, a federal judge has articulated a fact that’s been in plain view for years: The Trump administration’s implementation of the so-called Title 42 order, expelling migrants without due process, had little to do with pandemic control and everything to do with blocking their legal right to seek asylum.…

Tribune News Service

Plea to reopen Dumfries and Galloway's cottage hospitals

Four facilities across the region have been closed since they were mothballed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic

Daily Record

There is a hidden epidemic of missed cancer cases – here’s how we save lives now

With up to a million missed diagnoses across Europe as a result of the pandemic, it’s time to put cancer back on the agenda, says Edinburgh University chair of global public health Prof Devi Sridhar

The Guardian - UK

Vietnam jails dissident for eight years over Facebook posts

A Vietnamese court on Friday jailed a dissident for eight years for anti-state activities after he posted on social media commentary critical of the Communist Party and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Reuters

Xi says China to consider holding Belt & Road Forum in 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China would consider hosting the third Belt Road Forum for International Cooperation next year, which would be the first staging of the event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters

‘There’s no protection’: South Africa faces Covid legacy of sex for money

HIV infections and pregnancies are on the increase among young women, after many resorted to transactional sex to survive during the pandemic

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Radisson Hotel Group steps up to sustainability and the new normal of travel

Radisson Hotel Group (RHG) is continuing its journey to sustainability aligned with its commitment to be Net-Zero by 2050 while also synchronising with new tourism trends in the post pandemic era.

Tribune News Service

How far will home prices fall? Some say 20% or more is possible

As the U.S. housing market continues to cool, a growing number of forecasters say homeowners could soon experience significant price declines. These analysts look at the record run-up in home prices during the COVID pandemic and say a drop of 20% or more looms in the near future.

Los Angeles Times

LA's Tess Gunty, Imani Perry among winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Tess Gunty and Imani Perry were the big winners at the 73rd National Book Awards, taking home honors in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced at a gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York for the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic…

The Conversation

On World Children’s Day, let’s recognize that children’s rights include mental health

World Children’s Day is Nov. 20, when we celebrate the importance of children’s rights and of safeguarding adequate physical, mental, spiritual and social development for every child around the world.

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For these business and philanthropic leaders, collaboration to bring meaningful change takes many forms

The pandemic brought about many challenges, but also opportunities for collaborative problem-solving.

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Melbourne Indie Voices choir prepares for its first headline show since pandemic lockdowns

Melbourne Indie Voices choir has grown from several people rehearsing in a lounge room to 400 members in just a few years, and the group is ready for its first post-lockdown performance.

Reuters

How the World Health Organization might fight future pandemics

Negotiations on new rules for dealing with pandemics are underway at the World Health Organization (WHO), with a target date of May 2024 for a legally binding agreement to be adopted by the U.N. health agency's 194 member countries.

Reuters

Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO's draft pandemic rules

Pharmaceutical companies could be made to disclose prices and deals agreed for any products they make to fight future global health emergencies, under new rules that would govern a World Health Organization-backed pandemic accord reviewed by Reuters.

The Conversation

In 2020, universities shifted to online learning – three lessons from students' experiences

For young people who were in university at the height of the COVID pandemic, the university experience was suddenly radically different to what they had expected.

Los Angeles Times

LA COVID swindlers extradited from Montenegro to the United States, police say

LOS ANGELES — A pair of Los Angeles convicts who escaped to a European life of luxury under fake names after running a pandemic fraud ring were extradited Thursday from Montenegro to the United States, Montenegrin authorities said.

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Border policy questions loom as Senate works on funding, 'Dreamers' - Roll Call

An imminent end to pandemic-era asylum restrictions under Title 42 has renewed border policy debates on Capitol Hill.

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