pandemic

For Rachel Griffiths, 37, gardening became a "crutch" in 2020 when the "world was very crazy" due to the pandemic.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Student phone use at school has been a divisive issue since the pandemic, but for the first time, more Americans now favor all-day bans than oppose them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The decline continued into the early 2020s because the stimulus checks and more generous unemployment insurance payments the government provided at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic helped keep millions of U.S. consumers afloat.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

She was forced to cancel her last tour dates due to both the Covid pandemic and ill health.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

And even this enormous force might not have overcome the empire if while Cortes was building his ships Tenochtitlan had not been swept by smallpox in the same pandemic that later wiped out Tawantinsuyu.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

And, at a more fundamental level, pandemics breed conspiracy theories because someone inevitably loses.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The group is also fighting Becker’s bill, which would add war to the list of emergencies — such as natural disasters and pandemics — that can trigger California’s price-gouging laws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Shockingly, for many years, scientific leaders across the world—including in the U.S.—touted these experiments as a way to reduce the risk of pandemics caused by novel pathogens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Influenza A has also driven multiple pandemics, including the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

Why hypothesize the existence of vast, super-deadly pandemics that seem unlike anything else in the historical record?

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann