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Commentary: Ending masking requirements in hospitals and clinics is a step backward for health care

Recently, many of the hospitals and clinics in and around Chicago, including my own, have elected to discontinue universal masking requirements, noting the lowest rates of COVID-19 in the last three years. This is being hailed as a sign of moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it really…

Chicago Tribune

Pupils who used food banks in pandemic fared worse at GCSEs, study finds

Findings prompt concerns about long-term impact of cost-of-living crisis on poorer students’ life chances

The Guardian - UK

Pupils in families using food banks during pandemic ‘received lower GCSE grades’

More than a third of young people in families using food banks were not eligible for free school meals, a report suggests.

The Independent UK

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Leaving Cert results date confirmed by Education Minister

Leaving Cert results have been delayed in recent years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Irish Mirror

‘Tip of the iceberg’: Forced marriage reports soar but true scale of problem still hidden, experts fear

Exclusive: Expert says forced marriage inflicts ‘significant damage’ and constitutes child abuse

The Independent UK

Australia might not be in a recession but households are about to feel as though they are

People are spending less money, which means trouble for the economy. But it hasn’t hurt big business

The Guardian - AU

UK parents: what is behind the rise in school absences?

We want to speak to parents whose children are off school more often than before the pandemic

The Guardian - UK

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Software development got a lot less secure during the pandemic

As businesses rushed to transform, security took a back seat for many firms, who still aren't all that comfortable now.

TechRadar

EU willing to consider changes to Italy reform plan, but Rome must be quick

The EU Commission said on Wednesday it was prepared to consider changes to a plan of reforms agreed with Italy, but any new proposals must be made as soon as possible for Rome to secure promised pandemic recovery funds.

Reuters

Mississippi Delta hospitals battle financial factors to survive - Roll Call

Federal aid during the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the rate of rural hospital closures, but now some are struggling.

Roll Call

UK students seek go-ahead for lawsuit over COVID, strikes disruption

Thousands of university students asked London's High Court on Wednesday to give the go-ahead to a mass lawsuit against University College London (UCL) over disruption to their studies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and strikes.

Reuters

As a Therapist, I Know What’s Breaking Couples Up

How relationships come to an end and the scourge of the smartphone

The Walrus

Boris Johnson allies plot no-confidence letters in Sunak over Partygate police report

Boris Johnson is facing a fresh police investigation after the Cabinet Office handed over evidence to cops regarding events at Downing Street and his Chequers country retreat during the pandemic

Daily Mirror

LAUSD shakes up a highly praised academic initiative, angering parents and teachers

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles public school program that officials portrayed as a major success for helping struggling young students improve academically is being substantially dismantled by Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who says it's too costly and not particularly effective.

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Remote work: An underestimated benefit for family caregivers

For Aida Beltré, working remotely during the pandemic came as a relief.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

Fortune

China is bracing for a massive new wave of COVID cases. What it means for the rest of the world

Cases of Omicron variant XBB are mounting in China, forming a new wave expected to crest around 65 million cases a week by the end of June. While COVID remains a global threat, it's time to "go back for regular check-ups" and ensure that lives saved by COVID precautions during…

The Independent UK

World must prepare for disease more deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns

The next pandemic is bound to ‘come knocking’, warns health agency

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Webjet beats expectations with $150 million turnaround

The online travel platform says travel is yet to fully recover from the pandemic but its business already has.

Reason

The Perils of 'Rule by Indefinite Emergency Edict'

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch highlights a vital lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Idaho woman who defied COVID measure at playground says she was ‘falsely arrested’

BOISE, Idaho — A Meridian anti-vaccination activist who was arrested in 2020 for trespassing in a closed playground during the coronavirus pandemic has filed a tort claim against the city, arguing she was wrongfully arrested while exercising her constitutional rights.

Tribune News Service

More office workers are leaving home and returning to their cubicles

Employers are turning up the heat on workers who headed home during the pandemic to return to the office.

The Conversation

The world's worst animal disease is killing frogs worldwide. A testing breakthrough could help save them

For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world, wiping out 90 species. Unlike the global COVID-19 pandemic, you may not even be aware of this “panzootic” – a pandemic in the animal world. Yet it’s the world’s worst wildlife disease.

The Conversation

Live performance meets digital to create a powerful love story in the opera ‘Orphée+’

The 2022-2023 season is the first for the Edmonton Opera since its pandemic shutdown in March 2020. Globally, the pandemic forced performers to abandon live performance. After it became clear that this was more than a short shutdown, many performers turned to digital means.

The Independent UK

Former UK leader Boris Johnson faces new police probe over lockdown visits

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was fined for breaking his own government’s pandemic lockdown rules, has been reported to police over more potential breaches

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