Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
As the Pandemic Deepened, Americans Kept Drinking More
NYT Excessive drinking persisted in the years after Covid arrived, according to new data. Americans started drinking more as the Covid-19 pandemic got underway. They were stressed, isolated, uncertain — the world as they had known it had changed overnight. Two years into the disaster, the trend had not abated, researchers reported on Monday. The […]
Nov 12, 2024
How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?
BBC Five times Prof Kevin Fong broke down in tears in a nondescript hearing room in West London, while giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. The 53-year-old has the kind of CV that makes you pay attention: a consultant anaesthetist in London who also works for the air ambulance service and specialises in space medicine. […]
Oct 29, 2024
Nature The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding environmental factors in disease transmission. This study aims to explore the spatial association between nighttime light (NTL) from satellite imagery and COVID-19 mortality. It particularly examines how NTL serves as a pragmatic proxy to estimate human interaction in illuminated nocturnal area, thereby impacting viral transmission […]
Oct 23, 2024
COVID Deaths in the United States: Who Pays the Highest Price?
Medscape Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. From March of 2020 to May of 2023, 1.38 million more people died in the United States than would have been expected — 1.38 million lives that, had circumstances been […]
Oct 15, 2024
The story of a scientist who tried to stand for the truth and avoid Covid politics
NPR A scientist tried to stand up for the truth during a pandemic when political rhetoric and conspiracies were clouding everyone’s world. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth has often felt elusive. As conspiracy theories, misinformation and political rhetoric took hold early on, many people found themselves unsure of what to believe. Rund Abdelfatah and […]
Sep 25, 2024
Teen Girls’ Brains Aged Rapidly During Pandemic, Study Finds
NYT Neuroimaging found girls experienced cortical thinning far faster than boys did during the first year of Covid lockdowns. A study of adolescent brain development that tested children before and after coronavirus pandemic lockdowns in the United States found that girls’ brains aged far faster than expected, something the researchers attributed to social isolation. The […]
Sep 10, 2024
How did the pandemic impact babies starting school as children now?
BBC On 25 March 2020, Fiona and Ben Young drove to their local maternity unit through London’s empty streets. When they arrived, security guards sent them to the back entrance. It was day three of England’s first lockdown and the front was surrounded by patients being treated by doctors in hazmat suits. Two days later, […]
Sep 3, 2024
An Olympic-Sized Miss in Managing COVID-19
MedPageToday Noah Lyles’ stunning comeback to win the men’s 100-meter dash and subsequent crowning as the “world’s fastest man” at the 2024 Olympics was meant to be the crowning moment of this Games. With an anticipated triumph in his signature event — the 200 meters — the American sprinter was poised to complete an extraordinary […]
Aug 27, 2024
Well-being among university students in the post-COVID-19 era: a cross-country survey
Nature University students have to handle crucial challenges for their future lives, such as succeeding in academic studies and finding attachment figures. These processes could potentially involve their well-being and mental health, with possible sociocultural differences based on the country of study. In order to explore such potential differences, a cross-sectional, multi-center survey was performed […]
Aug 7, 2024
Our Desire for Inexpensive Food Is Putting Us in Danger
NYT/Opinion A dairy worker in Texas contracts H5N1 bird flu after contact with infected cows, and suffers eye inflammation. Weeks later, a dairy worker in Michigan begins to cough and then tests positive for the virus. A ferret in a cage (ferrets are often used as study proxies for humans) becomes infected with the virus by airborne […]
Jun 12, 2024