Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of "what it's doing to us" research, focused largely on ...

Businesses are being squeezed from both directions - and this time, there are no government handouts to cushion the blow.

Lockdown-related stress led to more severe brain changes in girls, raising concerns about long-term mental health impacts, say scientists. Study: COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain ...

On March 22, 2020, at the height of the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman coined the mantra for Trump’s back-to-work campaign, writing, “The cure cannot ...

A genuinely useful explanation of "soft skills" and how COVID lockdowns may have disrupted normal development of reading ...

The UK was one of the most locked down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable – it was a failure of public health policy. In a public health emergency, saving ...

A WSJ Opinion documentary highlights the scientific rebels who saw where everything was headed.

A group of Dutch medical researchers are igniting a firestorm by calling for an investigation of the deaths caused by vaccine mandates and lockdowns imposed on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in the Monthly Notices of the ...

The UK was one of the most locked-down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable—it was a failure of public health policy. In a public health emergency, saving ...