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Apr 17 2024
News
Home prices soared 40% during the pandemic—but Zillow sees them rising less than 2% this year
In roughly two years during the pandemic housing boom, home prices rose more than 40%. Since then, home prices continued their upward ascent. Capital Economics, for its part, recently said that the national average house price has risen almost 50% since the start of the pandemic. First American, yesterday, released its home price index report that found “house prices nationally are now 52%
FortuneApr 06 2024
News
A fungal pandemic is massacring frogs, but scientists just found a virus that could lead to a cure
Imagine a fungus that makes your skin turn angry red. Some of the skin breaks into ulcers, especially at the tips of your toes, while in other places, pieces of skin shed off entirely. By the time it reaches your heart, which is inevitably fatal, death is probably a welcome relief. That is the fate of the millions of frogs who have suffered from Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or BD for short
SalonApr 03 2024
News
Bringing dental care to kids in schools is helping take care of teeth neglected in the pandemic
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Tucked away inside the teachers lounge at a New Hampshire elementary school, Amber Warner was having her teeth checked out for the first time. The 5-year-old sat back on what looked like a beach chair and wore a pair of dark sunglasses as certified public health dental hygienist Mary Davis surveyed Amber’s teeth and then with a tiny syringe applied traditional dental
Associated PressMar 29 2024
News
Jeff Duncan: The Crescent City Classic is on the upswing after post-pandemic struggles
The Crescent City Classis is on the rebound. After a three-year dip in participation and sponsorship support, New Orleans’ premier road race is trending upward again. The COVID-19 pandemic is in the rearview mirror. A struggle to attract a title sponsor has been rectified, at least temporarily. The race's charity participation is at an all-time. Finally, things are looking up for the Classic
The Times-PicayuneApr 04 2024
News
Apple lays off hundreds of Bay Area workers in first mass cuts since the pandemic
Apple is laying off 614 employees in Santa Clara as part of its first mass job cuts in years, according to a state filing. An attorney for the tech giant wrote that the layoffs are effective on May 27, in a letter last week to the California Employment Development Department. The move, which spans eight offices in Santa Clara, follows reports that the company canceled a decade-long electric
San Francisco ChronicleApr 04 2024
News
22 arrested across Europe after allegedly stealing $650M in Italy's pandemic relief funds
• Police have arrested 22 people in an investigation into the suspected embezzlement of millions of dollars in EU pandemic relief funds. • The funds were diverted from the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan by a criminal organization, officials said. • Italy's recovery program, funded by the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility, is the bloc's largest, totaling $211 billion. Police
Fox News (Online News)Mar 24 2024
News
Pandemic workplace safety policies may default to employers, not government mandates
The Winston-Salem JournalApr 07 2024
News
Abbey's Road: Remembering the COVID-19 pandemic four years later and what we've learned
Around this time four years ago, I spent my days perched in a rocking chair in our finished attic-turned-makeshift schoolroom with a Chromebook in my lap while one kid played math games on an iPad, another wrote in a notebook about her latest reading assignment and the third did her best to blend in. I was overwhelmed and frustrated by the different websites I was supposed to visit in order to
The Columbus DispatchMar 23 2024
News
Hawai‘i high school graduates endure with accomplishments in post-pandemic world
Graduates of the Class of 2023 made progress in a number of educational metrics, according to a report by the Hawai’i Department of Education and the University of Hawaiʻi. PC: file courtesy Hawai’i Department of Education. Newly released College and Career Readiness Indicator report findings shed light on the accomplishments and unprecedented challenges faced by high school graduates who were
Maui Now NewsMar 25 2024
Opinion
I helped advise the US government on the next likely pandemic. What I learned is alarming
Four years on from the first Covid lockdown, life feels to be largely back to normal, although legacies of the pandemic remain. Collective amnesia seems to have set in. Politicians seem eager to move forward and not relive the decisions, delays and deaths that characterised public policy and press briefings. Yet we can’t forget such a brutal event, when Covid is estimated to have killed nearly
The Guardian