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Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of "what it's doing to us" research, focused largely on ...

During the pandemic, Chalkbeat published dozens of essays that spoke to the tumult of COVID-era teaching. Lindsay Klemas wrote about teaching on Zoom while caring for a toddler. Canwen Xu recounted ...

The UK was one of the most locked-down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable—it was a failure of public health policy. In a public health emergency, saving ...

Roanoke, VA (WFXR) — The lockdowns are over, masks are no longer an everyday sight, and life has largely returned to normal.

New research found that teens’ brains “aged” during the COVID-19 lockdowns due to the loss of social interaction. Girls were the most impacted. COVID-19 as a virus has wreaked havoc in many ways, ...

On March 22, 2020, at the height of the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman coined the mantra for Trump’s back-to-work campaign, writing, “The cure cannot ...

If people start most fires, keeping people indoors should mean fewer of them. When COVID-19 lockdowns kept people home in early 2020, that’s mostly what happened.

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in the Monthly Notices of the ...

Standing knee-deep in a Montana river while fishing with a TV news anchor, Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted “regret” that some of California’s COVID crackdowns went too far. Newsom’s pandemic mea culpa ...

The UK was one of the most locked down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable – it was a failure of public health policy. In a public health emergency, saving ...