Pandemic
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News
Why Children Are Missing More School Now
The raw data looks inarguably bad: The share of American children missing at least 10 percent of school days nearly…
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Food
Fauci Grilled by Lawmakers on Masks, Vaccine Mandates and Lab Leak Theory
Dr. Fauci testified before a House panel investigating Covid’s origins. The panel found emails suggesting that his aides were skirting…
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News
As Bird Flu Looms, the Lessons of Past Pandemics Take on New Urgency
In 1918, an influenza virus jumped from birds to humans and killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people…
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News
Who ‘Won’ Covid? It Depends How You Measure.
Twenty months ago, in July 2022, I wrote a long essay sketching what I called the “pretty brutal” endemic future…
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US
How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics
In March 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump competed for the White House for the first…
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Style
They Fell in Love During the Pandemic. Then Things Changed.
Four years after lockdowns and social distancing were implemented worldwide, four readers share their stories about their pandemic relationship regrets.
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News
American Cities Aren’t Doomed After All
For a year or two, as first-wave pandemic panic gave way to a more generalized perception of ragged social disorder,…
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News
American Students Outperformed the Rest of the World During the Pandemic
By now, you’ve probably registered the alarm that pandemic learning loss has produced a “lost generation” of American students. This…
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Business
Yellow Says It Will Repay Federal Debt. Legal Experts Are Skeptical.
The trucking company, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, owes more than $700 million to the Treasury Department.
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US
Biden Picks Retired General to Lead New White House Pandemic Office
The News President Biden has picked Dr. Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force major general who…
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