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Why some Texas cities and counties had to return millions of dollars meant to help renters during the pandemic

For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.

The Texas Tribune

About 1 in 9 Los Angeles students will attend extra learning days. What happened?

LOS ANGELES — A signature $123 million Los Angeles school district plan to help students struggling with pandemic-related learning setbacks by offering extra school days has failed to attract widespread participation, with about 1 in 9 students signing up.

Los Angeles Times

DWP legacy claimants can live stream court appeal on backdated £1,500 Universal Credit payments

The challenge has been taking place in the Court of Appeal. It could set a precedent for everyone who missed out on the uplift during the Covid pandemic

Nottingham Post

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Millennials turn 41 this year, but some are still stuck at home living with their parents

One in eight millennials were forced to move home with their parents in 2022. Many couldn't afford rising rent prices.

Fortune

Syphilis cases rise in Australia despite fall in testing for STIs during pandemic

Covid-19 resulted in a drop in chlamydia and gonorrhoea diagnoses, the Kirby Institute says, but worrying increase in syphilis

The Guardian - AU

China could face a catastrophic COVID surge as it lifts restrictions – here’s how it might play out

China is the only major country which, until now, has continued to enforce a zero-COVID strategy. Other countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, also sought to eliminate COVID entirely earlier in the pandemic. But all eventually abandoned this approach because of the mounting social and economic costs and the…

The Conversation

Much of the CDC is working remotely. That could make changing the agency difficult

ATLANTA — Earlier this year, top leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a monumental task: turning the sprawling, labyrinthine organization known for its highly specialized, academically focused scientific research into a sleek, flexible public health response agency primed to serve the American public. It’s an attempt…

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Tourists 'think twice' about Indonesia following criminal code revisions

Indonesia's decision to outlaw cohabitation and sex outside of marriage may hurt the tourism industry in Bali, travelers and businesses said, just as the island destination gets back on its feet after the COVID pandemic.

Reuters

Emerging from the COVID pandemic, again

For much of the world, 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters

Drug Shortages? Ham-Handed Pandemic Interventions Deserve Much of the Blame

You can’t turn lives and economies off and on without inflicting lingering harm.

Reason

A 20% home price crash? These 7 forecast models can see it—where the other 13 leading models have the 2023 housing market going

Where 20 leading forecasters foresee home prices going in 2023.

Fortune

Best of 2022: The biggest art stories mattered more than soup thrown on a Van Gogh

LOS ANGELES — The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but museum and gallery exhibitions are getting back on track. Rather than write the usual list of 10 best shows, I'm sharing these 10 art stories that caught my eye this year.

Los Angeles Times

The 10 best TV shows (and 3 best dance sequences) of 2022

This year was supposed to be the year that television nosedived into a creative slump. Worriers theorized that the darkest days of the pandemic had disrupted so many productions that there'd be nothing left worth watching by the time 2022 rolled around: Think of it as the entertainment equivalent of…

Los Angeles Times

Geisha masquerade

Geiko and maiko in face masks pass the time in their sajiki box seats before the start of a kabuki show on Monday at Minamiza Theatre in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto. As part of the annual "Kagai Soken" event, in which geisha from Kyoto's five hanamachi geisha districts watch kabuki to…

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Liver disease drug could be repurposed to protect against Covid

Vaccines are one of the most potent weapons in our pandemic response, but not everyone can benefit from them

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: The tragedy of avoidable COVID deaths

Whose pandemic strategy really saved lives? Which states or countries lost the most people to the virus? Or to the unintended consequences of mitigation efforts? Now there’s finally some clear, objective data emerging from the fog.

Liverpool Echo

Wet weather added delay to Tuebrook leisure centre refurbishment

Peter Lloyd has been the subject of much debate since it closed before the pandemic

Axios

COVID could be DeSantis' secret weapon in 2024

The way he handled 2020 was much more in line with where the GOP is now.

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Twitter was a pandemic haven for people with disabilities. Elon Musk’s purchase has them worried

PHILADELPHIA — Fear of COVID-19 never ended for Heather Kerstetter.

ABC News

Anthony Fauci on the lessons that must be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

As Anthony Fauci prepares to leave his role as chief medical adviser at the White House, the world is in a much better place in the fight against COVID-19. But the infectious disease expert is warning against complacency and says the virus still poses a threat.

The Times of India

Coronavirus: From getting a bald patch to losing hair volume; experts explain hair fall and thinning during the COVID pandemic

After recovering from an intense COVID infection in 2021, Pulkit Batra, 30, noticed he is losing more and more hair everyday and his hair texture also started getting thinner. "This continued for 3 months. I reached out to 2-3 people and realized that everyone was facing the same problem. This…

Reuters

China COVID policy: Major changes in further easing

China's National Health Commission announced on Wednesday the most significant relaxation of its COVID-19 prevention and control protocols since the pandemic erupted three years ago.

Birmingham Post

'Pent-up demand' helps slash losses at Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports owner

Group passenger numbers increased 362.1% from 6.6 million to 30.5 million, 84% of pre-pandemic levels

Asharq Al-Awsat

World Economy Faces More Pain in 2023 after a Gloomy Year

This was supposed to be the comeback year for the world economy following the Covid pandemic. Instead, 2022 was marked by a new war, record inflation and climate-linked disasters.

Reuters

Pandemic lockdowns linked to decline in U.S. twin births, study suggests

Reduced access to infertility treatments early in the pandemic may have contributed to a drop in twin births, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest.

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