The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

Trump ‘signed checks for people for 7,400 bucks ... and I didn’t,’ outgoing president says

President-elect Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs across goods coming in from Mexico, Canada, and China. And they range between 25% and 100%, with the former aimed squarely at Mexico and Canada. Obviously, this is cause for alarm. As I've explained in other posts, tariffs only hurt the consumer, not the company,…

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling on a global scale, challenging teachers with a flood of unmanageable demands.

Australia has a successful adolescent immunisation program, routinely achieving high vaccine coverage for teenagers.

Franchise operators pursuing £120m legal claim say they feared losing their livelihoods or homes, with some having suicidal thoughts

Since the onset of the pandemic, food prices have remained stubbornly high, even as grocery chains have made record profits. This has fuelled public frustration with so-called “greedflation"— a term describing large corporations raising their prices during times of crisis.

Rising homelessness across Australia is overwhelming the capacity of services to offer emergency help. New evidence in the Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024, released today, confirms homelessness has soared well above pre-pandemic levels in most parts of the country.

Canada’s postsecondary institutions have a responsibility to protect students and others on campus from the risks of post-COVID condition as a matter of campus safety.

The pandemic gave us a valuable opportunity to change our ways, yet many workplaces have rebuffed the lesson