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What sparked the COVID pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs
More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.
Supreme Court clears the way for a lawsuit over COVID-19 pandemic-era unemployment claims in Alabama
People left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama can sue the state, the ...
Book Review: ‘Disposable’ a journey through the inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic
Journalist Sarah Jones chronicles the gaps in the nation's health care system and social safety net that were highlighted by ...
Social Security Gets Major $205-Billion Boost After COVID Deaths
The deaths of over a million Americans during the pandemic allowed the Social Security program to save billions in future ...
Marketplace4d
How excess deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Social Security
New research finds that the number of COVID-19 deaths was large enough to result in a $205 billion net increase to the Social ...
Nature5d
Learn COVID pandemic lessons — before it’s too late
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public weariness and irresponsible politics are hampering an effective ...
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3. How the COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. religious life
The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on how religious communities gather for worship. In a Pew Research Center survey ...
Flu deaths may have surpassed COVID deaths nationwide for first time since start of pandemic, early CDC data suggests
Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1 ...
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Americans reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic five years later
It has been five years since the pandemic changed the lives of everyone. On march 11, 2020 the World Health Organization ...
R.I. students have recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic faster than the rest of New England
But they’re still a third of a grade level behind in both math and reading compared to students before the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
New coronavirus with ‘pandemic potential’ found in China, Daily Mail says
CoV-2, has been discovered in China and is “strikingly similar to the pandemic virus” and feared to be powerful ...
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CIA now says COVID most likely originated from a lab leak but has "low confidence" in its assessment
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even ...