Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
COVID was the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 for 3rd year in a row: Report
(CBS News) COVID-19 remained the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 despite the number attributed to the virus dramatically declining. A new report released Wednesday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund looked at preliminary data and found that 226 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died last year while in the line of […]
Jan 17, 2023
The quiet cost of covid: A million people missing work each month
(Washington Post) Some 1.5 million people missed work because of an illness last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The month before that, it was 1.6 million. In October, 1.3 million and in September 1.2 million. In fact, the last time there were fewer than a million Americans missing work because of an illness […]
Jan 10, 2023
Second Year of Pandemic Took a Heavy Mental Health Toll on Young Adults
(MedPageToday) Nearly half of 18- to 25-year-olds experienced any mental illness or a substance use disorder in 2021, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health’s latest reportopens in a new tab or window. While the national rate of mental illness was 22.8% for adults overall in the second year of the pandemic, that […]
Jan 10, 2023
How the pandemic altered the restaurant industry forever
(Washington Post) Pandemic restaurant-going was like a series of twists on the old Yogi Berra quip about how nobody goes there anymore because it’s too crowded. First, restaurants stood cavernously empty by mandate as we pined for them. Then we got scared to be cheek-to-jowl with fellow customers. As patrons surged back, a dearth of […]
Jan 3, 2023
(STAT – by Helen Branswell) People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a bad pandemic would one day come. They knew such an event would overwhelm hospitals, strain supply chains, and place stresses on society that we would be ill-equipped to meet. Countries like the United States have […]
Dec 27, 2022
Trends in Homicide Rates for US Children Aged 0 to 17 Years, 1999 to 2020
(JAMA) What are the recent changes and long-term trends in homicide rates for children aged 0 to 17 years and precipitating circumstances and characteristics most commonly associated with these deaths? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 38362 homocide victims, homicide rates for some geographic and child demographic groups declined; however, rates recently increased across several subpopulations.
Dec 20, 2022
How did COVID warp our sense of time? It’s a matter of perception
(NPR) [Listen to Audio] The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to her 3-bedroom duplex in Manchester, England, with a newborn and two boys home from school, “was like climbing a mountain that never ended.” Time stood still, she says, filled with children moaning of boredom, […]
Dec 14, 2022
Plans for a Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy
(US Dept of State) Health threats such as COVID-19, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and many others continue to demonstrate that health security is national security. A virus can spread quickly across borders and around the globe, endangering lives, disrupting how countries and communities function every day, and impacting our safety, security, and stability – here at home […]
Dec 13, 2022
Plunge in US imports accelerates; volumes near pre-COVID levels
(Freight Waves) The situation remains far from normal at some U.S. ports. There were still 18 container ships at anchor waiting for a berth in Savannah, Georgia, on Monday. But for the country overall, plummeting inbound cargo volumes are bringing imports close to where they were before the pandemic-induced spending splurge. Descartes reported Monday that […]
Dec 13, 2022
Covid Depression Is Real. Here’s What You Need to Know.
(NYT) The World Health Organization noted this year that anxiety and depression increased by 25 percent across the globe in just the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. And researchers have continued to find more evidence that the coronavirus wreaked havoc on our mental health: In a 2021 study, more than half of American adults reported symptoms of major […]
Dec 6, 2022
