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This comedian just won a $550,000 prize. Up next: A boundary-pushing solo show

LOS ANGELES — Part of the world may have moved on from COVID-19, but performance artist Kristina Wong is reliving the worst of the pandemic — specifically the dark days of 2020 through the summer of 2021 — night after night as part of her solo show, "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop…

Los Angeles Times

Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings. Should the rest of us be jealous?

The pandemic had an unexpected side effect: peak meeting misery. With Shopify's radical announcement last month, the working world wants to know if a future without meetings is even possible.

WEKU

How do pandemics begin? There's a new theory — and a new strategy to thwart them

Animals carry millions of pathogens. So it's a daunting task to find the one with the greatest potential to spark a pandemic. Now scientists are rethinking the way they hunt for that next new virus.

WEKU

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Pandemic compounded challenges for people struggling with eating disorders

BALTIMORE — For almost two decades — from high school to when she was a 35-year-old graduate student — Alicia Castaneda Hatfield struggled with an eating disorder without ever talking with a doctor about it.

Tribune News Service

Workers could be denied sick notes in bid to boost economy

Government concerned by rise in long-term sickness since pandemic

The Independent UK

New mum couldn't sit down or dance at her wedding - but says she has no regrets

Allie and her husband had to rearrange their wedding due to the pandemic - and then everything happened at once

Wales Online

Governments target medical debt with COVID relief funds

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt

The Independent UK

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The King’s Singers US college gig allegedly cancelled because of sexuality

First cancellation in group's 55-year history, that wasn't due to bad weather, a pandemic or war

Wales Online

China’s world-beating drop in COVID deaths revives data concerns

China is posting the steepest drop in COVID deaths among more than 20 places hit hardest by omicron, reviving questions about its virus data and the true impact of the reopening wave as Beijing works to move on from the pandemic.

Tribune News Service

‘It’s an emergency’: Homelessness on the rise in Hong Kong

In one of the world’s most expensive cities, the number of people without a home to call their own is soaring.

Al Jazeera

Parties set out tourism proposals

Political parties are campaigning to establish sustainable financial and employment support for tourism operators as they hope to avoid a repeat of the collapse during the pandemic.

Bangkok Post

China’s Video Game Industry Posts First Drop in Five Years

Sales shrink 10.3% to $39 billion as pandemic impedes new product development and slowing economy weighs on demand

Caixin Global

Study: Unless most people get an annual COVID vaccine, tens of thousands will die in the US each year

Public health experts warned from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that the disease was “not like the flu,” resulting in far more deaths and hospitalizations each year.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fear and loathing in New Zealand: an overdue examination of our ‘underworld of extremists’ is valuable but flawed

Since the horrific attacks in Christchurch in 2019 there has been substantial and growing attention paid to the extreme right in New Zealand. The pandemic – and the conspiracy theories and anti-government sentiment that developed in response – increased that scrutiny, and the sense of unease or alarm many felt…

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Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’: They’re just trying to get home. You may feel the same

“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” launches Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and these phases are starting to feel like variants in a pandemic.

The Independent UK

Concern over Covid inquiry PR firms that worked for Government during pandemic

A barrister representing bereaved families said companies hired by the inquiry should declare any work that could be deemed a conflict of interest.

StockNews.com

3 Defense Stocks to Buy Amid Rising Global Tension

Despite supply chain disruptions brought on by the pandemic, the defense industry is expected to recover and witness significant growth in 2023, driven by new, advanced technologies, improved business models, and favorable government investments amid growing geopolitical tensions. Since Boeing (BA) is still struggling with supply chain issues and incurring…

Daily Mirror

Covid inquiry told it must look at whether Tory austerity hampered readiness for pandemic

Pete Weatherby KC, representing the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice group, told a preliminary hearing today that he backs a call by the TUC for austerity to be looked at in the long-anticipated probe

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The New Daily

‘Swift and significant’: Plunge in regional property prices as pandemic migration ends

An Australian "love affair" with moving out of cities has ended, with regional areas suffering sharp declines in property prices.

Wales Online

Tui sees record number of summer holiday bookings despite cost of living crisis

Brits are desperate to get abroad for some summer sun after years of disruption caused by the pandemic

Evening Standard

Trading platform Plus500’s profits grow as pandemic-era day traders stick around

Vast majority of revenue in 2022 came from customers who signed up more than one year ago

Birmingham Post

Exeter Airport creates 25 jobs as it looks to continue pandemic rebound

The airport is looking to fill a wide range of posts in anticipation of a busy summer

Chronicle Live

Deliveroo cuts 350 jobs as families rein in spending on takeaways

Demand boomed during the pandemic as restaurants closed but founder now admits "Our fixed cost base is too big"

Evening Standard

FTSE 100 Live: Blue-chips fall just short of 8000, but index sets another closing record

The FTSE 100 index has moved to the brink of the 8000 threshold amid more signs of economic resilience.

Glasgow Live

OAP Lanarkshire businessman pocketed £50,000 taxpayer backed loan for 'own benefit'

Thomas Whyte applied for the Bounce Back Loan intended to support businesses through the covid pandemic for his dormant company with just £203 in it's bank account.

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