The political decisions made during 2020 and 2021 to combat the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly altered daily life. Professionally, societies faced partial unemployment and widespread adoption of remote ...

New research uncovers the hidden cost of the pandemic: millions of years of healthy life lost, with poorer countries and older adults hit hardest. Study: Direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 ...

Among 289 million adults in 18 European countries, more than 16 million years of life were lost from 2020 through 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published March 11 th in ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly in March 2020, many were ordered to stay at home, leading to a rise in remote work. The EU agency Eurofound, which compiled data from over 250,000 people ...

English writer Aldous Huxley once said, “Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” The EU was caught off guard by the sudden shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

A new study found that reported diagnoses for tuberculosis were consistently lower than expected throughout the pandemic, even though incarceration rates remained largely consistent and TB detection ...

The World Health Organization said Friday that Europe was now the "epicentre" for the global coronavirus pandemic -- and warned it was impossible to know when the outbreak would peak. While individual ...

In a paradox of air pollution, a decrease in man-made pollutants led to more methane in our atmosphere. And natural wetlands released more of the planet-warming gas at the same time ...