When the panic set in at the beginning of the pandemic, Australians rushed out and bought a whole load of carbohydrates, new data on food sales shows.Grain sales - which also includes pasta, rice and flour - rose 40% in March 2020 compared to the previous month as people stocked up for the first of the Covid-19 bans, the...
Parents and unpaid caregivers of adults in the United States reported far higher rates of mental health problems than people who did not have these roles during the coronavirus pandemic, federal researchers reported Thursday.About 70 percent of parents and adult caregivers - such as those who care for the elderly - and about 85 percent of people who were...
The pandemic forced many American arts organizations into mass layoffs and deep pay cuts as ticket sales vanished for more than a year.Now one of the country's best-known ensembles, the Philadelphia Orchestra, is trying another way to recover from the crisis: It announced plans on Thursday to join forces with its landlord, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts."We...
SYDNEY, Australia - Across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to leave it behind.As the US, which has suffered far worse outbreaks, now crampers stadiums with vaccinated fans and planes with summer vacationers, the pandemic champions of the east are still caught in a cycle of...
Health experts across the country agree that we are in the midst of a mental health pandemic and have good reason to believe that this mental health crisis will lead to increased cases of depression1 over the course of the year.This debilitating disease currently affects more than 17.3 million American adults, with research2 showing rates have tripled as a...