Research shows an increased potential for spread through aerosols.

88 of the top 100 cities in the U.S. showed fewer jobs in October 2021 compared to February 2020, the New York Fed Reserve found in data released Friday.

Pfizer and BioNTech are testing a third dose of a Covid vaccine for young children. The third dose is a lower amount than the adult doses.

Omicron will likely become the dominant strain across the majority of the US by Christmas but Prizer's new Covid pill offers a glimmer of hope in staving off severe illness.

Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.

A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers.

As of the Dec. 15 deadline, 97.9% of active duty soldiers in the US Army have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine, slightly trailing 98% of the Navy but slightly higher than the Air Force (97.5%) and the Marine Corps (95%). The Air Force discharged 27 airmen who had refused to get the shot and the Navy has fired one sailor for refusing to be tested while he was pursuing an exemption.

In case you haven’t heard … prices? They’re higher these days. That’s not terribly surprising, given the global supply chain debacle, but it turns out a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic has an impact, too. Dozens of countries have experienced inflation since the onset of the pandemic, and the United States has one highest rates. Today, we look at how the U.S. approach to addressing inflation differs from other countries around the globe. We’ll also take a trip to a warehouse to see its role in the global supply chain, hear how the Great Resignation isn’t necessarily benefitting everyone and celebrate jobless claims that haven’t been this low since the Beatles were together.

The US is averaging nearly 120,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, which is a 40% increase from last month, and deaths have increased 12% over November.

The agency’s advisers cited concerns about the increased incidence of a rare but potentially serious blood clotting condition among those who received the company’s shot.

Science can find a cure for our diseases, but not for our societal ills.

During the pandemic, teenage girls took on more caregiving at home, extra shifts at work and the burden of organizing racial justice protests. In many instances, it upended their lives.

Even for micro businesses, how things get made can be shaped by macro trends and geopolitics. Now small-scale producers are taking back control.

Discover global insights about what talent wants, what employers need, relevant skills, and more in this report on how the talent market has changed since COVID began.

Having been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, women have found alternate financial success by hosting on Airbnb.

It’s past time to subsidize child care in America

Labels like "nonessential" are getting in the way of urgent treatments and surgeries. There’s a better way.

In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school.

A new CDC study found that the percentage of obese children and teens increased to 22%, compared to 19% before the pandemic. It also found that expected annual weight gain ranged from 5 to 15 pounds.

Note: At the beginning of the pandemic, the delinquency rate increased sharply (see table below).   Loans in forbearance are counted as deli...

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…

CR Note: Back in November, housing economist Tom Lawler wrote The Dismal Demographics of 2020 . Here is an update from Tom Lawler: Updat...

Nature Human Behaviour - Using a large dataset of workers and technology use from before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Yang et al. find that firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration...

UT sociologist Jennifer Glass on why so many people are leaving their jobs

The anti-vax fertility panic, explained.