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For much of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans were voluntarily leaving their jobs at historically high rates. The era, commonly known as the Great Resignation, lasted for just over two years — from...
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Nearly 1% of emergency room visits nationwide during the week that ended in June 22 were diagnosed as COVID-19, a 23% increase from the prior week. However, just 0.6% of deaths were COVID-19 related,...
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The Coronavirus was a globalwide epidemic that put millions of companies out of business. When the pandemic triggered lockdowns in the US, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a thousand points...
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Well before the CDC declared the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency in May 2023, life began to return to pre-pandemic normal — a trend also reflected in the nation’s population...
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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) was printing money during the Covid pandemic. Still, those days are way in the rearview mirror as investors not only see shrinking sales but also see the potential for a...
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Hospital admissions for COVID-19 surged and test positivity remained virtually unchanged for the latest reporting period. As winter draws near, there is a greater possibility that other viruses and...
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After a week when hospital admissions and test-positivity rates for COVID-19 leveled off, the seven-day moving average for both categories resumed their declines for the most recent reporting period....
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Life expectancy at birth in the United States is now 76.1 years, the lowest it has been since 1996 – a decline due largely to COVID-19 and to the rise in drug overdoses. (These are 30 famous people...
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Only two of the states with the nation’s highest hospitalization admissions from COVID-19 were the same from the previous week as the latest surge flattened out this week. To determine the states...
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COVID-19 sure put the damper on our restaurant-going. An estimated 70,000 to 90,000 eating places closed as a direct or indirect result of the pandemic, from fast food outlets to temples of...
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