How Does a Pandemic End? Here’s What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu

Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still ...
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The pandemic drove up inflation. How come, years later, we're still paying more?

What happened to those “short-term” price increases from the pandemic? From 2021 to 2023, Canadians were told that prices jumped largely because of supply-chain bottlenecks, government spending on ...
The New York Times

We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic

In the event of a sudden pandemic, what should we do? This month, Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, offered a remarkably blunt answer: nothing. It’s been nearly six ...
CNN

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news ...
Psychology Today

How the Pandemic Changed Puberty for Girls

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the U.S. in March 2020, life came to a standstill and millions of people experienced drastic changes in their lifestyles. For adolescents, this meant ...
New York Post

The next pandemic could rattle civilization — and a new book warns we’re not ready for it

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...
NPR

From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z

Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights. "We have the rise of ...