Covid lockdowns, such as school closures, canceled sports activities and stay-at-home orders, prematurely aged teen brains by as much as four years, researchers from the University of Washington found ...

As many as 30% of children and teens across the world were nearsighted in 2023, a new study has revealed. Diagnoses of nearsightedness (myopia) are expected to worsen over the next two decades, ...

Over four years after the start of mass school lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, many children are still feeling the educational effects. According to a new report from the testing nonprofit ...

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 ...

Melbourne home sellers and landlords lost up to $55 million a week as sales prices and rents declined after the second severely restrictive COVID-19 lockdown (July 2020) to attract buyers and renters ...

Chris Hipkins says Aucklanders have moved on from long lockdowns, and don't hold a grudge against Labour. The Labour leader ...

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says Aucklanders have largely moved on from raising questions about the Covid-19 lockdowns he ...

Influencers and others on social media have seized on the hantavirus outbreak to revive disinformation that sowed distrust ...