Alternatively, the historical cohort does not account for secular changes in acute care use because of the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors. Despite each comparator’s limitation, there is no obvious reason to believe that the 2 comparators share a common source of unobserved confounding bias....
Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which operates in 192 countries, warned of the risk of social unrest, hunger and starvation as a result of the pandemic. "We need to plan together with institutions a social response before it is...
With such high growth rates, investors have been more than willing to back businesses in the segment. From 2018 to 2021, firms in the light meal sector saw several rounds of funding, according to Zero2IPO Research, a financial services data provider. Last year, startups such as Dongchi, Sm...
According to a research report from Meituan, a Chinese integrated platform for delivery services and shared mobility solutions, 70 percent of consumers of meal-replacement products are female, and those born between the 1980s and 1990s account for 40 percent of all consumption. Li Hongcan, 26, ...
Offering meal delivery and extending hours may also improve access. Districts primarily offered onsite pickup during the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly due to a lack of refrigerated transport and staffing for meal delivery. (McLoughlin et al., 2020, Connolly et al., 2021) Meal sites were largely...