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PBS airing doc ‘Rising Against Asian Hate’ about Atlanta spa shootings

ATLANTA — Filmmakers Gina Kim and Titi Yu watched with increasing horror as Asian American hate crimes spiked in 2020 into 2021 after the pandemic began, with many people blaming China for the start of COVID-19 and extending that to people of all Asian descent in America.

Tribune News Service

The monkeypox non-pandemic

Experts feared that monkeypox would cause a pandemic on the level of COVID-19. This is why that didn't come to pass

Salon

Should you go to work with COVID? We asked 45 different employers and the results were mixed

Mandatory isolation requirements for people who get COVID-19 have come to an end nationally — but that doesn't mean you can rock up to work symptomatic with the virus.

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Cynical Tories can’t understand the power of compassion and community

Letters: Josephine Feeney on the strong ties built within the NHS during the Covid pandemic, and Canon Andrew Lightbown on the local groups working to help vulnerable people lead a life of dignity

The Guardian - UK

Battered temporary cycle lanes to be permanently installed across Liverpool

The lanes were installed during the Covid-19 pandemic

Liverpool Echo

Long Covid is said to affect white middle-aged women more – but data suggests otherwise

Race, wealth and free time dictate who gets to be treated for long Covid – making the condition ‘the new pandemic’

The Guardian - US

Boston Fintech Week Returns, Highlighting Adjacent Industries: Web3, CBDCs, Philanthropy

Like many events, Boston Fintech Week was forced to pivot to a virtual event during the COVID-19 pandemic. But this year, the in-person event returned, bringing a renewed buzz and excitement to the fintech space.

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How Western countries could stop Africa making vaccines of the future

While Western donors have stumped up significant funding for a programme to make Covid-19 vaccines in Africa, activists say more support is needed to help poor countries secure the intellectual property rights they need to produce mRNA vaccines beyond the pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

Broadband internet isn't equally available to LA County's low-income residents, report says

The pandemic proved how crucial it is to be connected to the internet.

Los Angeles Times

Does tutoring work? An education economist examines the evidence on whether it’s effective

With reading and math scores plummeting during the pandemic, educators and parents are now turning their attention to how kids can catch up. In the following QA, Susanna Loeb, an education economist at Brown University, shines a light on the best ways to use tutoring to help students get back…

The Conversation

Stirling fitness instructor leaps into action for Children in Need fundraiser

A fitness instructor has leapt into action to raise funds for this year’s Children in Need. Laurie Neil had a fitness studio in Stirling before the pandemic hit and is well known for her Boogie Bounce sessions. She said: “I did a ‘bounce about’ in

Daily Record

Health boss claimed £30,000 Covid 'Bounce Back' loan and spent it on herself

Monica Coyle, 51, "exploited the scheme" which the Government created during the Covid pandemic, in order to help businesses access finance more quickly for her "directors' personal gain"

Daily Mirror

State school pupils twice as likely to feel behind with learning after Covid pandemic, study shows

The Sutton Trust and University College London has carried out landmark research following thousands of students’ progress

The Independent UK

Shaun Wane ready for World Cup opener after being ‘bored for two years’

The England coach has only face the Combined Nations All Stars, France and Fiji due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Why Kids Born During The Pandemic Are Worse At Communicating

Researchers studied 309 12-month-old pandemic babies born during the first three months of the outbreak.

Daily Record

Community service getting back on track in Dumfries and Galloway after pandemic forced a halt

Nearly 10,000 hours of standard community service had to be written off in the region in 2020/21 due to strict Covid lockdown rules

The Independent UK

Rugby League World Cup ‘a long time coming’ for England coach Shaun Wane

The England coach has only face the Combined Nations All Stars, France and Fiji due to the Covid pandemic

Evening Standard

London’s spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration to return after Covid hiatus

More than 100,000 tickets to go on sale later this month

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Wales Online

Figures show huge drop in number of babies born during Covid pandemic

“We think that couples’ fears of a health and social crisis at the time of the first wave of Covid-19 contributed to the decrease in live births nine months later.”

The Guardian - UK

Bereaved families to ask Covid contract PR firms not to bid for inquiry work

Exclusive: Eight firms that received pandemic contracts to be urged to withdraw due to ‘clear conflicts of interest’

ABC News

Mandatory COVID isolation ends today, prompting mixed views from South Australians

SA health authorities say the emergency phase of the pandemic is over but preparation for future outbreaks will continue, as mandatory isolation ends today.

Daily Mirror

Covid fears were to blame for drop in birth rates throughout European countries

Researchers have claimed that the 14% drop in birth rates throughout January 2021 compared to previous years was a direct effect of the coronavirus pandemic

ABC News

COVID-19 updates: Mandatory isolation comes to an end as Australia enters new phase of pandemic — as it happened

Australia is entering a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic as mandatory isolation for positive cases comes to an end across all states and territories. Look back at toady's developments with our blog.

Tribune News Service

Whitmer, Dixon spar over abortion limitations, gun control and pandemic restrictions in debate

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her Republican challenger Tudor Dixon kicked off Thursday's debate in Grand Rapids sparring over abortion and what exemptions or limitations they would support related to abortion.

Tribune News Service

First defendants plead guilty in Feeding Our Future fraud

MINNEAPOLIS — A Feeding Our Future employee on Thursday admitted to taking more than $1.3 million in bribes to help other co-conspirators defraud a federal child nutrition program as part of the nation's largest pandemic fraud case.

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