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The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us
Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of ...
Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?
As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided.
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
From pandemic struggles to St. Patrick’s Day crowds, Mary O’s soda bread rises to viral fame
Nestled in a modest storefront in New York City’s East Village, Mary O’s Irish Soda Bread Shop blends into the other ...
The Literature of the Pandemic
Not long after COVID lockdowns began in the U.S. five years ago this week, many readers and writers started to wonder, with a ...
Five years since the pandemic began, covid may now be endemic, experts say
The pandemic may be over, but the endemic disease is still a threat, especially for older adults and those with certain risk ...
Five Years Later: The Pandemic's Lasting Impact On How We Live
We asked people how COVID-19 changed their lives for the better, from career shifts to the end of relationships and a ...
Frontline health care workers reflect on early days of COVID 5 years after WHO declared pandemic
Five years after the WHO declared the COVID global outbreak to be a pandemic, frontline health care workers reflect on what they remember of the early days of COVID.
Madrid leader under fire after documentary on nursing home deaths in pandemic
A documentary on the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents denied hospital care in Spain's Madrid region ...
Ramstad: It's no fun reliving the start of the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic was a turning point in life shared by everyone on the planet. It was unique and wild. And yet, five years on, there haven’t been any bestselling, can’t-miss books about it. No ...
The Pandemic Was Terrible … But Did It Produce Some Actually Great Art?
There was a lot of art that came out during and in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic that was … shall we say, best ...