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An IBAC investigation has found senior public officers failed to warn the minister that hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

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 ...

If people start most fires, keeping people indoors should mean fewer of them. When COVID-19 lockdowns kept people home in early 2020, that’s mostly what happened.

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 ...

Resistance to pandemic lockdowns and mandates created a generation of Republican stars. Nearly all have faded away.

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 ...

New research found that teens’ brains “aged” during the COVID-19 lockdowns due to the loss of social interaction. Girls were the most impacted. COVID-19 as a virus has wreaked havoc in many ways, ...

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 state's integrity watchdog has found public officials withheld news of $257 million in flawed COVID-19 business grants.

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 ...