The problem with post-pandemic work · Recode
Assessment of Prolonged Physiological and Behavioral Changes Associated With COVID-19 Infection | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
This cohort study examines the duration and variation of recovery among COVID-19–positive verses COVID-19–negative individuals.
The world is worried about the Delta virus variant. Studies show vaccines are effective against it.
Israel reported that the Pfizer vaccine was 64 percent effective against the Delta variant. Other studies suggest a higher rate.
Mad Men. Furious Women.
Far from dissipating over the last decade, misogyny in the ad industry has simply mutated into something insidious, invisible, lurking in the shadows. It’s time to fire up the floodlights.
Meal kit sales will sharply decelerate this year, report predicts
Coresight Research expects industry growth to slow from 70% in 2020 to roughly 18% in 2021 as pandemic-fueled interest wears off.
Opinion | 7 Charts That Explain the Economic Recovery So Far
Friday's jobs report, and a slew of other data, shows going big and going early works.
Assessing the Association Between Social Gatherings and COVID-19 Risk Using Birthdays | Public Health | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
This cross-sectional study uses administrative health care data on 2.9 million households from the first 45 weeks of 2020 to assess the association between social gatherings and SARS-CoV-2 transmission by studying whether COVID-19 rates increase after birthdays in a household.
Birthday Parties as Virus Vector
Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year? Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.
Are Private Equity Firms to Blame For Rising Home Prices?
Wall Street is an easy scapegoat. The real villain lives much closer to home.
The Impact of Coronavirus on US Job Postings Through June 18
US job postings on Indeed.com on June 18 were 30.5% above February 1, 2020, the pre-pandemic baseline. Human resources jobs have increased dramatically.
Labor Shortage? Great Realignment?
No matter what you call it, hiring is difficult right now and seems to be especially difficult in the food and beverage service industry. Anecdotes abound about understaffed restaurants struggling to hire, workers pivoting from food service to new industries, and new incentives being offered to entice workers. Whether you choose to call it a labor shortage or a great realignment of labor, changes happening in the industry today will reverberate for years to come.
Bubble Watch: Home price gains 50% too high? – Orange County Register
My trusty spreadsheet says appraisers found appreciation 50% below jumps in the regional median sales price.
After an astounding rise in home prices, this expert predicts the boom will continue | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Below is an interview of Edward Pinto, the Director of AEI’s Housing Center, with Fortune’s Shawn Tulley on the state of rapidly rising home prices across the country: In almost five decades as one of America’s top housing experts, including a stint as chief credit officer of Fannie Mae, Ed Pinto has never seen prices …
Record-setting year pushes property values up 13% in Palm Beach, says county appraiser
Overall property values in Palm Beach are estimated to have hit $28 billion as of Jan. 1, up from $24.7 billion.
European factories racing as Asian manufacturers see momentum weaken
LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) -European factories continued to ramp up their post-lockdown recovery in June but Asian manufacturers saw momentum weaken amid rising input costs and the reintroduction of curbs to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections, surveys showed. Czech and Polish manufacturing hit a record pace of activity for the second month in a row as orders rose and economies opened up again. But manufacturing activity grew at a slower pace in China and Japan as raw materials rose, while activity shrank in Vietnam, Malaysia and India, where governments imposed tougher restrictions to contain fresh coronavirus outbreaks.
The growing threat of drug-resistant, invasive fungi
Some fungi are evolving to resist drugs and ammonia cleaning and sometimes even attack healthy humans.
COVID Concerns and Financial Cushions Make Job Search Less Urgent
In a new Indeed survey, many job seekers say they don’t feel a sense of urgency to get work, but that may change in the fall.
The EU’s COVID-19 ‘digital certificates’ are up and running
A regulation underpinning a digital certification system for individuals in the European Union to verify their COVID-19 status via a common credential has gone into application today — on schedule. From today, almost all EU Member States are now able to issue and verify digital certificates, …
Colorado gas stations running out of fuel, but supply isn’t to blame
The problem isn’t a lack of supply. Rather, it’s a lack of truck drivers.
Pace of US job growth picks up as signs point to tight labor market
The US economy added 850,000 jobs in June, a noticeable pickup from the average of 546,000 jobs over the previous three months and much faster than the pace in the three months before that. This still leaves the economy 9 million jobs short of its trend.
Employment Situation Summary
June 2021
China's "Psycho Boom" From Life in Lockdown - Vice
Mental health has long been a stigmatized topic in China. Under Chairman Mao’s rule, psychology was dismissed as a bourgeois self-delusion, and was even bann...
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
With the adjustment for vaccination, the national death rate is roughly the same as it was two months ago, while the adjusted rates in several states show the pandemic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge.
PolitiFact - Unvaccinated people haven’t ‘escaped’ COVID-19 variants
A social media post claims that COVID-19 vaccination is unnecessary since unvaccinated people have "escaped every single/>
Delta variant of coronavirus spreading in Mesa County
The Delta variant is more transmissible than previous strains, according to MCPH Executive Director Jeff Kuhr.
With COVID-19 Delta variant spreading in Larimer County, health officials urge vaccination
State public health officials expect that more than half of Colorado's COVID-19 cases are tied to the 'highly contagious' Delta variant.
White House launches ‘surge response’ teams to delta variant hot spots
The highly transmissible variant remains the "greatest threat" to the U.S. coronavirus response, officials warn.
Entrepreneurship beyond Silicon Valley · McKinsey & Company
COVID outbreak at Illinois summer camp fueled by unvaccinated attendees
A COVID-19 outbreak at a summer camp in Illinois is a reminder that young people are taking a risk by not getting vaccinated, health officials say.
How Gen Z Dates Online — With Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone · Alex Kantrowitz