While most high income countries are felt to be reaching their COVID peak, most lowand middle﹊ncome countries (LMICs), particularly sub㏒aharan countries, are anticipating an exponential growth of cases.(1) Overall it has been documented that children are less affected.(2) However, in this...
The nation's COVID-19 response has seen a strange turn for the CDC, which opened in 1946 in Atlanta as The Communicable Disease Center to prevent the spread of malaria with a $10 million budget and a few hundred employees. Today, the agency has a core budget of more than $7...
Then, just as COVID-19 was becoming endemic, Russia invaded Ukraine, delivering another shock to the global economy. The war’s repercussions are still being felt in the United States and elsewhere. Inflation has soared—in June 2022, t...
Motivating effortful behaviour is a problem employers, governments and nonprofits face globally. However, most studies on motivation are done in Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) cultures. We compared how hard people in six countries worked in response to monetary incentive...
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COVID-19 is changing the way enterprises are operating, forcing many employees to work from home in a bid to practice social distancing and limit the spread of the disease.
Getting back into exercise can be a challenge in the best of times, but with gyms and in-person exercise classes off-linits to many people these days because ofcOVID-19 concerns, it can be tricky to know where to start. And it's important to get the right dose of activity. " Too ...
The drivers who do get work face other dangers. Covid exposure is an ongoing concern. So is assault—Awaad has spoken with drivers who have been attacked and robbed of their cars. He plans to organize a protest in front of the UK parliament to demand safety measures, and has been reachin...
the capacity of the national health system to respond to it. Countries like Rwanda, South Africa, and Namibia have both a functioning health system to respond, and access to essential private infrastructure to facilitate COVID-19 prevention measures. Case numbers in South Africa have still been ...
TheCoronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law by then-President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, aimed to counteract the economic turmoil set into motion by the global COVID-19 pandemic. With concerns that the U.S. economy was heading into a recession, poli...