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By March 2020, when WHO described COVID-19 as a pandemic, there were more than 126,000 infections and 4,600 deaths — about three months after the coronavirus was first identified. In contrast, it’s taken since 2022 for mpox cases to hit nearly 100,000 infections globally, with about ...
The founders of BioNTech, the German biotechnology company that developed a prominent coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer, are predicting that the pandemic likely will continue into 2022 as new waves of the infection surge in countries with limited vaccine supplies. DuringThe Wall Street Journal’s...
Global growth has remained stable at 3.2% in 2024, despite a tougher (geo)political context. Falling inflation has bolstered household purchasing power, even if consumer confidence has not yet returned to prepandemic levels everywhere. Half of the world's population went to the polls in 2024, ...
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Also at stake in the telework debate is federal office space going unused. Employees worked from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many have not returned to the worksite. EPA is in the process of assessing its own real estate in its sprawling downtown Washington headquarters. The agency...
In the week that ended May 15, a total of 15.4 million people were receiving some form of jobless aid, including special federal programs to aid the unemployed during the pandemic. That was down from 15.8 million the previous week. That figure has steadily declined from about 20 million in ...
Emmanuel Agogo, director of pandemic threats at the organisation, says Sars-Cov-2 made the grade because of the high priority given to fighting the Covid pandemic. “The findings of our index demonstrate an urgent need to accelerate investments and R&D to fill these concerning gaps in our diag...
We also know from weekly surveys that people are less likely to test for COVID and report their results at this stage of the pandemic. So reported cases are now a smaller fraction of all infections than in previous waves. New sub-variants are likely the cause ...
Homeowners who locked in ultra-low mortgage rates during the pandemic are unwilling to let them go for the higher rates available now. High mortgage rates and home prices have kept many Americans in place, upgrading their homes instead of moving. Experts say that could continue in 2025. ...