Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
Post-COVID ‘revenge spending’ appears to be on the way out
WTOP After COVID restrictions lifted, many of us made up for lost time by shopping, leading to a trend known as “revenge spending.” Now, with uncertainty surrounding the economy, it appears many are turning in the opposite direction and putting a focus on saving. According to a report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis released last week, the […]
Jun 4, 2025
Long COVID Is Fueling a Mental Health Crisis in Children
Neuroscience News A new study reveals that nearly 40% of children with long COVID are experiencing significant symptoms of anxiety or depression, many for the first time. Using validated mental health screening tools, researchers found that 1 in 4 children had new anxiety symptoms and 1 in 7 had new depressive symptoms, despite no prior […]
May 28, 2025
Office design isn’t keeping up with post-COVID work styles – here’s what workers really want
The Conversation Flexible work has become the new norm, despite the best efforts of companies calling workers back to the office. Some employers assume that a return to the old ways of working is both possible and desirable. But for many workers, their perception of the office environment has changed. According to our new study, only 27% […]
May 7, 2025
Do You Have Your Cootie Shot?
The Atlantic The classic kids’ game teaches a lesson about public health that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has failed to learn. A sudden and mysterious outbreak of communicable disease began recently in my apartment building in Manhattan. Three 7-year-olds, a boy and two girls, were sharing the elevator one day with a caretaker and a […]
Apr 16, 2025
New Yorkers reflect on COVID-19 impact: reporting anger, isolation, and unexpected growth
6 News Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest poll by the Siena College Research Institute reveals that 67% of New Yorkers report either they or a family member contracted the virus, with 37% experiencing it more than once. The results were gathered from 618 NY residents from March 17 to […]
Apr 16, 2025
Long-Term COVID-19 Is Real
Psychology Today Several months after the COVID-19 pandemic started, I began seeing COVID-19 survivors who suffered from a variety of symptoms long after they were first infected. They mainly complained about debilitating fatigue, brain fog, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, difficulty completing tasks, muscle pains, etc. Some of them were highly functioning individuals who were desperate to return to […]
Mar 25, 2025
Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?
NYT As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives. Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic offered a painful crash course. Sometimes, it seemed that the science […]
Mar 19, 2025
America is becoming a nation of homebodies
The Conversation In his February 2025 cover story for The Atlantic, journalist Derek Thompson dubbed our current era “the anti-social century.” He isn’t wrong. According to our recent research, the U.S. is becoming a nation of homebodies. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we studied how people in the U.S. spent their time before, during […]
Mar 18, 2025
The Artifacts of New York’s Pandemic Era
NYT Stuck to lampposts and floorboards, reminders of Covid’s darkest days are everywhere. The vintage aura of Sevilla Restaurant — the servers in bow ties, the leather booths, the glow of lanterns — reflects a bygone era of the West Village in Manhattan, where the establishment was founded almost a century ago. But alongside those […]
Mar 12, 2025
Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19
BBC Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries didn’t impose any lockdown restrictions – so was their decision the right one? In March 2020, billions of people stared out through their windows at a world they no longer recognised. Suddenly […]
Mar 5, 2025