Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
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
Painting Through the Pandemic: A Lifeline in Linseed Oil
MedPageToday Working on the frontlines during the pandemic was akin to emotional whiplash. The days on service in the ICU were chaotic and relentless, and I barely had time to meet my most basic physiologic needs, let alone emotionally process the horrors I was seeing play out in front of me. Twelve hours would pass […]
Jan 22, 2025
What Covid tried to teach us — and why it will matter in the next pandemic
Stat Five years ago this week, STAT was interviewing nervous infectious disease scientists about a mysterious disease spreading in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, located roughly 500 miles west of Shanghai. On Jan. 4, 2020, we published the first of what would become a torrent of articles on the disease now known as Covid-19. The […]
Jan 7, 2025
When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And Animals Began to Act Differently
Science Alert We all had to make adjustments as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day. In a study published in 2022, researchers discovered how primates reacted to that shift, looking at the behavior of bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, and olive baboons, and […]
Dec 17, 2024
Fewer teens are using alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana than before the pandemic
Philly Voice Substance use fell among adolescents when COVID-19 hit. Those declines have continued – to the surprise of some experts. he majority of teenagers in the U.S. do not drink, smoke or use marijuana, a new report shows. The percentage of teens abstaining from alcohol, tobacco and marijuana in 2024 was the highest since […]
Dec 17, 2024
Growing gulf in US life expectancy deepened by COVID-19 pandemic
Medical News.Net In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers updated their analysis from the original Eight Americas study to reflect current life expectancy disparities in the United States. What is the Eight Americas study? The Eight Americas study was published nearly two decades ago to provide crucial insights into life expectancy inequities in the […]
Dec 4, 2024