After the emotional appeal of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, on Monday, the COVID-19 situation in the U.S. has been under close scrutiny. Walensky spoke of “impending doom” as falling case numbers…
A devastating second wave of coronavirus infections in connection with mutant variety P.1 has caused deaths from COVID-19 to soar in Brazil. As of March 31, the 7-day rolling average of daily new COVID deaths stood at 14 per one million of population. …
According to the latest ONS figures, over one million people were estimated to be suffering from Long Covid in the UK in the four weeks ending 6 March. Long Covid is defined as “symptoms persisting more than four weeks after the first suspected coronav…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional mortality data showing that Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. last year. Two reports were part of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which found th…
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The UK and EU made some progress in their vaccination dispute last week. While Brussels stopped short of introducing an export ban, the bloc did give backing for tighter export controls which means that the tug-of-war with the UK over supplies of the A…
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
The unionization efforts from workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., warehouse follow several successful union campaigns led by blue collar tech workers and reflect a general increase in activism among tech industry employees. From Amazon workers slamming…
50 years ago, on March 30, 1971, a store selling freshly roasted coffee beans and coffee equipment opened in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. And if anyone had predicted back then that this little specialty store would lay the groundwork for a billion-doll…
As we have entered the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s a growing transatlantic divide in public mood. While the finish line appears to be in sight for the United States, where a rapid vaccine rollout and falling case numbers have sparked …