Some experts say tooth-grinding is a behavior rather than a disorder, and the dentist’s chair isn’t the best place to address it.

The wealth of the 10 richest men in the world more than doubled from approximately $700B to $1.5T between Mar. 2020 and Nov. 2021, while the incomes of approximately 99% of the world fell and more than 160M people into poverty.

Genetic epidemiologists have found evidence suggesting that the omicron variant did not emerge from the delta variant.

This report describes how children and adolescents were more likely to receive a new diabetes diagnosis after infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Researchers found a link between mild Covid infections impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, decreased oligodendrocytes and myelin loss in mice one week after infections persisting until at least seven weeks leading them to conclude that even those with mild symptoms in the acute phase may experience lasting cognitive dysfunction.

In her new book, “The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change,” Pauline Boss considers what it means to reach “emotional closure” in a state of unnamable grief or ambiguous loss. Boss teases out how one can mourn something that cannot always be described. The pandemic has been rife with “ambiguous loss,” A sense of “frozen grief” pervades great swathes of the global community. Boss believes that by rethinking and lending language to the nature of loss, we might get closer to understanding it.

​​The number of recent influenza cases is typical for this time of year, but the last time flu cases reached this level was before the coronavirus pandemic began.

Thieves are stealing catalytic converters and earning between $50 to $300 by selling them to scrap yards. Insurance claims for stolen converters jumped from 3,389 in 2019 to 14,433 in 2020. The cost of replacing a stolen catalytic converter can cost uninsured victims north of $1,000.

When we look to 2024, it’s easy to focus on the doomsday scenario: an election where legitimate results get thrown out. But our democracy has been eroding for years — and we’ve never been an equal democracy for everyone in the first place.

Covid accounted for 14 percent of all deaths in the United States from March 2020 until all adults became eligible for the vaccine in April, compared with 11 percent of deaths since then.

During the pandemic, about 4 in 10 adults in the U.S. have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, a share that has been largely consistent, up from one in ten adults who reported these symptoms from January to June 2019

When asked questions normally used to screen patients for mental health problems, 24 percent showed clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30 percent showed symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.

In our 2020 commissioned survey, 60% of respondents said that current public investment in mental health research is not enough. This is a 9% increase, up from 51% in 2018.

Nepal has halted Covid-19 vaccinations in children ages 12 to 17 in eight districts because of a shortage of syringes.

At least 2,400 more flights were canceled globally on Monday, including about 900 U.S. flights.

Nicholas Christakis is director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University and author of the bestseller "Apollo’s Arrow." He speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the next phase of the pandemic based on previous pandemics.

Molnupiravir was associated with a decreased the risk of hospitalization from Covid-19 by only 30%, compared to a reduction of almost 90% with Pfizer's PAXLOVID. The FDA advisory committee also limited its use in non-pregnant adults because of their concerns about the potential risk of mutations in human DNA.

In the first seven months of 2021, cargo volumes between Asia and North America were up by 27% compared with pre-pandemic levels.

A computational biologist thinks potentially half the globe may contract Omicron over the coming weeks and months.

The omicron wave appears to have peaked and is already subsiding in South Africa, with a relatively minor impact on their healthcare system. However, the positive rate is still around 29%, suggesting high circulation among their population. other fluctuations.

Social media posts containing expletives has increased 27% on Twitter and 41% on Facebook between 2019 and 2021. Another profanity-filtering service run by Inversoft found that the volume of filtered words has tripled in the past 18 months on the forums and message boards.

Almost $100B out of $3.5T of pandemic relief funds have been stolen since early 2020. More than $2.3B in stolen funds have been recovered so far, resulting in the arrest of more than 100 suspects.

Following up on a newsletter from two weeks ago, the US Census Bureau reported that the US population increased by just 392,665 people (about the population of Cleveland, OH), or 0.1%, from July 2020 to July 2021, bringing the total population to 331.8M people. This the first time that the population grew by less than 1 million people since 1937.

From March 2020 to March 2021, the number of Latinas in the workforce dropped by 2.74%, the biggest drop of any demographic group.

Omicron is now the most common variant among new Covid cases in the U.S., accounting for nearly three-quarters of new infections.

A study by UpWork estimated that 14 million to 23 million Americans may relate due to the rise of remote work, amounting to 9% to 13% of the workforce. The vast majority are moving to the South and West, consistent with migration trends that were established before the pandemic (🔒The Economist).

The Netherlands is requiring all nonessential businesses to close until at least January 14 to reduce transmission of omicron.

The annual cost of childcare has risen as much as 41% since the beginning of the pandemic, increasing from an average of $9,977 to $14,117.

At least 6,153 news organization employees were laid off between March 2020 and August 2021, with at least 100 US news organizations closing over the same period. Another 42 outlets were acquired.