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Commentary: LA and other cities are recovering, but not their downtowns. Why?

A fiscal “doom loop.” A transit “death spiral.” The “office apocalypse.” Since the traumatic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, these pessimistic terms have been applied repeatedly to the state of our cities. Analysis of Census data from my Brookings Institution colleague William Frey found that from 2020 to 2021, during…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: The classroom can be stressful. Now Missouri is fining teachers who want to leave?

The pandemic and its aftermath have taken a terrible toll on the teaching profession across the country, and Missouri is no exception to the rule. That’s why the state last year set up a Blue Ribbon Commission to figure out how to attract and retain teachers. The commission meets again…

Tribune News Service

Three Wuhan scientists 'world's first Covid patients when experiment went wrong'

So-called Patients Zero included Ben Hu, Ping Yu and Yan Zhu who were all researching SARS-like viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to an investigation.

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Passenger numbers on Welsh trains well down on pre-pandemic levels

The number of people using Welsh trains has yet to recover to what it was before Covid

Wales Online

China withholds key indicator of Covid death toll as it fails to release cremation data

China has been accused of masking the true impact of the pandemic and underreporting the number of fatalities

The Guardian - AU

Data | Less than half of urban consumers pessimistic about the economy

When asked about their current perception of the economy, 48.9% said it has worsened

The Hindu

Ride-share drivers find ways to survive COVID downturn

The COVID-19 pandemic decimated the incomes of Indonesian motorbike and car drivers working for ride-sharing apps. But they found creative ways to survive.

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Interview: Super Formula's vision for an international future

With the COVID-19 pandemic finally in the rear-view mirror and Japan opening itself up to the world again, Super Formula's quest to achieve a more international following has returned to the top of the championship's agenda.

Motorsport

Aussie gambling rates rebound to pre-pandemic levels

Gambling levels in Australia that dropped during the height of COVID-19 restrictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels, a study has revealed.

The New Daily

Delta to resume dividend payouts, with CARES Act restrictions lifted

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines announced it will pay a quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share to stock owners, its first such payment since it suspended dividends at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

Tribune News Service

Billionaires are being demoted to millionaires in most of the world’s 15 wealthiest countries

Billionaires fared well during the pandemic, but they're losing a bit of speed. Here are the countries where three-quarters of them live.

Fortune

Pandemic linked to diabetes in pregnancy

Psychological stress and changes in prenatal care could be to blame for a jump in gestational diabetes cases

Salon

UK post-Covid plan will not keep public safe, expert tells inquiry

David Alexander of UCL says new framework merely ‘an attempt to tinker with the system’

The Guardian - UK

Evaluation of UK’s pandemic preparedness was ‘simply wrong’, expert says

The World Health Organisation carried out a joint external evaluation of the UK’s ability to cope with public health risks prior to the pandemic.

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Theme parks bounced back in 2022 from pandemic lows with revenue, if not attendance

Last year marked a return to normal for the theme park industry around the world with operators reporting revenues at par or above pre-pandemic levels

Daily Mirror

Covid Inquiry: What we learned on Day 3 as plans for a future pandemic branded inadequate

The Covid inquiry will next week hear from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and former prime minister David Cameron, as well as Sir Chris Whitty and former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance

Tribune News Service

Johnson in ‘serious contempt’ poses major dilemma for UK’s Sunak

Boris Johnson committed a “serious contempt” of Parliament and repeatedly misled UK lawmakers about rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during the pandemic, according to a long-awaited probe which despite its largely unsurprising findings still shocked with the severity of its indictment of the former prime minister.

The Independent UK

Confidence in science fell in 2022 while political divides persisted, poll shows

Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a a partisan divide that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic

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5 key takeaways from 'partygate' report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled UK Parliament

A U.K. parliamentary committee has issued a damning report concluding that former Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled lawmakers over what he knew about multiple lockdown-flouting parties at his office and government buildings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wales Online

China accused of researching covid bioweapon before pandemic in new report

The allegation is that the Chinese military wanted a vaccine to inoculate their own population if they ever wanted to use the virus for biowarfare

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels

Evening Standard

David Cameron, George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt to give evidence at Covid inquiry next week

Former prime minister David Cameron and his then chancellor George Osborne will give evidence about how prepared the country was for a pandemic to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry next week.

The Guardian - UK

Covid inquiry: lawyers voice ‘alarm’ over short time slot for David Cameron

Former PM to be questioned on Monday, with George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt and Oliver Dowden also slated to give evidence

Daily Mirror

Three Wuhan scientists 'were world's first Covid patients after experiment went wrong'

Three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have been suspected as the source of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new investigation

Axios

The Fed grows confident its Goldilocks economy might come true

The U.S. may not have to sacrifice the economic gains achieved in the pandemic recovery.

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