Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels – giving one photographer a unique perspective.
BBC As Covid-19 spread at the start of 2020, the modern, globalized economy began to shudder to a halt. Shops shut their doors. Factory production lines grew silent. The world’s vast armada of airliners stayed stationary in quiet airports – at least for the most part. And the cruise ship industry started to close down operations to avoid spreading […]
Oct 29, 2025
Covid 2020: Where cruise ships went to die
BBC When Covid-19 took hold, cruise ship operators struggled to stay afloat. One option was to scrap older vessels – giving one photographer a unique perspective. As Covid-19 spread at the start of 2020, the modern, globalised economy began to shudder to a halt. Shops shut their doors. Factory production lines grew silent. The world’s […]
Oct 29, 2025
Recovery Strategies for Government-Led Food Supply Chain in COVID-19 Pandemic: A Simulation Study
News Wise In the field of food supply chain management during public health emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic, government-led food supply chains are critical for ensuring residents’ dietary needs. However, such chains face significant challenges: insufficient transportation capacity, uneven distribution of district warehouses, and production-demand mismatches lead to severe food shortages. Existing research mostly focuses […]
Oct 22, 2025
Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits
Yale School of Public Health Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences year-round as occurred during peak influenza months, a team that includes Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers has found. The study was published Oct. 10 in JAMA Network […]
Oct 15, 2025
What Was the World’s First-Known Pandemic?
History.com The Plague of Justinian peaked in the year 542 and lasted for two centuries, contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire. The Plague of Justinian in the sixth century was one of the worst of times. “Now the disease spread over the whole world, sparing neither sex nor age nor making any distinction […]
Oct 1, 2025
Long COVID and Food Insecurity in US Adults, 2022-2023
JAMA Importance Long COVID (ie, post–COVID-19 condition) is a substantial public health concern, and its association with health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, remains poorly understood. Identifying modifiable risk factors like food insecurity and interventions like food assistance programs is critical for reducing the health burden of long COVID. Objective To investigate the association of food […]
Sep 10, 2025
The lessons New York still has not learned from the Covid vaccine rollout
STAT As Covid-19 has receded from everyday life, New Yorkers — and Americans more generally — haven’t shown much interest in poring over their governments’ pandemic-era performance. In 2024, congressional Republicans released a deeply partisan Covid-19 report, focused on issues like the lab-leak origin theory. But there has been little neutral analysis of real-time policy decisions […]
Jul 30, 2025
The week that Covid-hit Britain returned to the pub
BBC It became known as “Super Saturday”. Britain’s pubs had been shuttered for more than four months during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, since Boris Johnson, then UK prime minister, held a TV address which announced strict new lockdown rules that included shutting down a number on non-essential venues – the country’s pubs […]
Jul 30, 2025
The pandemic aged our brains, whether we got Covid or not, study finds
NBC The stress of lockdowns, fear and social isolation appear to have left a mark on our brains. Experts say it may be possible to counteract the changes. Brain aging may have sped up during the pandemic, even in people who didn’t get sick from Covid, a new study suggests. Using brain scans from a […]
Jul 23, 2025
The pandemic generation: How Covid-19 lockdowns is having a long-lasting effect on children
BBC The stress and isolation of the pandemic have left social and emotional scars that are already being seen in children, but scientists also predict there could be huge economic costs due to disrupted education. For US pre-school teacher Rebekah Underwood, there is something different about the class of 2025. She’s noticed that the children […]
Jun 17, 2025