Public Health

Fast-food chains are increasingly focusing on pricier meals with higher margins, according to Reuters. Some, such as McDonald's, are cutting back on value meals and dollar menus in favor of larger family-sized bundles. Others are rolling out higher-end burgers and other dishes, such as Wendy's "Made to Crave" menu. See...

(From USA Today) You will not believe which words Americans struggle to spell the most amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Quarantine” was the most commonly misspelled word, often spelled as “corn teen,” according to AT&T. The telecommunications giant reviewed the top-searched words users in each state look up when searching “how to spell.” AT&T used Google Trends data from March 24, 2020, to March 24, 2021.

Covid-19 has led to a growing divergence in long-term return expectations post-pandemic between investors and financial professionals, according to a global survey of 8,550 individual investors by Natixis Investment Managers. The survey of investors with more than $100,000 in investable assets, found that a high proportion are optimistic given the...

A possible link between some COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation bears close monitoring, but it’s no reason for parents or their teenage children to avoid vaccination. That’s what researchers are saying after several reports of the inflammation in teens and adults who had been vaccinated recently. Such cases appear to...

Some research this week by the Evening Standard has revealed the London borough that has vaccinated the greatest percentage of its population. Based on data provided by NHS England, the stats show that… RICHMOND is London’s front-runner, with 85 percent having had their first dose, and 55 percent their second. That perhaps isn’t that surprising. Richmond’s population is around 156,000, whereas several London boroughs have more than 200,000. It is also – crucially – one of London’s most affluent areas. Oh, and hand-in-hand with that affluence comes a more elderly-than-average population that doesn’t move around that much (I mean, if you lived near all that green space, deer, tea shops, lovely pubs etc etc, why would you?). All of which means that NHS services can reach those eligible for vaccination relatively efficiently and that more of the population will have been eligible for vaccination by this point.

Oracle Survey Respondents Are Ready To Spend More On Hospitality Perks Beyond The Room Charges, Hoteliers Add New Services To Extend The Customer Experience. After more than a year in lockdown, 76% of consumers in North Americans Plan to travel within the next six months. According to a new Oracle Hospitality survey, 24% of respondents in the US and Canada plan to travel immediately, 31% in the next one to three months, and 21% by the end of the year.

As India reels from a devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new horror is plaguing people there. Some COVID-19 patients “go home only to come back to the hospital with a damaged nose, swollen cheeks and so on,” says SP Kalantri, a physician at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Sevagram, a small town in the state of Maharashtra.

The Covid pandemic had an important impact on when and how often CEOs left major companies last year. Some business leaders attributed their decision to burnout after a tumultuous and exhausting year of crisis management, according to a new report from The Conference Board. The findings of the report include:

The British and Irish Lions could return to Jersey after their tour of South Africa to avoid 10 days of Covid-19 isolation. Fully vaccinated travellers returning from red-list countries such as South Africa only have to self-isolate until a negative test in Jersey. But UK red-list arrivals have to spend...

A strain of COVID-19 first detected in India and identified in Hawaii earlier this month has been found on the Big Island, the state Department of Health said Tuesday. According to the DOH, there have been three cases of COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant associated with travel from the mainland — two on Oahu and one on Hawaii Island.

A strain of COVID-19 first detected in India and identified in Hawaii earlier this month has been found on the Big Island, the state Department of Health said Tuesday. According to the DOH, there have been three cases of COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant associated with travel from the mainland — two on Oahu and one on Hawaii Island.

The delta variant of the coronavirus, which has quickly become the dominant strain in other countries and can cause more severe illness, is now spreading in Hawaii, prompting state heath officials Tuesday to once again urge Hawaii residents to get vaccinated not just to protect themselves, but the broader community, including young children who aren’t yet eligible for the vaccine.

(CNN) — Covid-19 deaths have fallen dramatically across the United States -- average daily deaths are less than a tenth of what they were at the peak of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University -- but nearly 300 people are still dying of Covid-19 each day in the US.