By using a unique dataset of more than 20,000 individuals with savings accounts from August 2019 to October 2020 in South Africa, this paper examines how the COVID crisis has affected savings behavior, and by affecting savings, impacted wealth inequality. We find that while COVID increased ...
According to the World Health Organization, “At present, there is no evidence that the risk of infection or complications of COVID-19 is different among people living with HIV who are clinically and immunologically stable on antiretroviral treatment when compared with the general population.” Howev...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has created an economic crisis alongside a health care crisis. During the 2 weeks ending on March 28, nearly 10
2020 is the last year of China's 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP). However, the sudden COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the original pace of production and life. It's also a major test for the country's public health system. "The practice of fighting COVID-19 exposed many loop...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. Whil
Research shows that the supply and demand for talent in some industries have been affected by COVID-19. The pandemic could also affect what people want to pursue as a career, and the choice of major which students choose to pursue at universities. How is it going to affect job seek...
Enough time has passed since the 2020 presidential election that we can now ask: What effect did COVID-19, arguably the biggest event of the year — of the century, even — have on the election outcome? The answer to this question probably seems straightforward considering how abysmally Americ...
"Millennials and Gen-Zer's are not usually mired in deep questions about religion, but now they are grappling with questions of meaning, morality and mortality in ways they never did before. Like all of us, they are confronted with daily decisions about where they go, who they see and wha...
We are unsure of the magnitude of PCC’s association with incident physical and mental health conditions due to limitations in the quality of the evidence and difficulty disentangling the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic from the effects of PCC. Another limitation is that this study did not add...
and people returned to offices. Life was moving toward some sort of new normal. It's since become clear that the pandemic wasn't ending so much as entering a new phase. The Delta variant has COVID case numbers climbing in parts of the country once again. Similar to the pandemic's early...