The toll of China’s unwavering approach to fighting Covid has rippled through the world’s second-largest economy for months: Youth unemployment reached a record 20 percent, corporate profits sagged, and economic […]
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Back to news homeThe World Tries to Move Beyond Covid. China May Stand in the Way.
As the rest of the world learns to live with Covid-19, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, wants his country to keep striving to live without it — no matter the […]
For Retail Workers, Omicron’s Impact Isn’t Just About Health
Long checkout lines. Closed fitting rooms. Empty shelves. Shortened store hours.Plus the dread of contracting the coronavirus and yet another season of skirmishes with customers who refuse to wear masks.A […]
How to Store Your Covid Vaccine Card or Test Results on Your Phone
The state of the digital Covid vaccine card — the bar code that we store on our phones and present to businesses and venues as proof of inoculation — is […]
Wall Street Warms Up, Grudgingly, to Remote Work, Unthinkable Before Covid
In private, many senior bank executives tasked with raising attendance among their direct reports expressed irritation. They said it was unfair for highly paid employees to keep working from home […]
Many Pandemic Retirees Weren’t Ready. How to Cope if You’re One of Them.
Andrea Jones hadn’t yet settled on a date to retire from her customer service job at United Airlines when Newark airport started looking like a ghost town in March 2020. […]
Companies Begin to Mandate Covid Vaccines for Employees
Some of the nation’s largest employers, for months reluctant to wade into the fraught issue of whether Covid-19 vaccinations should be mandatory for workers, have in recent days been compelled […]
How U.S. Ratings of Nursing Homes Mislead the Public
The pandemic laid bare the flaws in the government rating system.The state health inspections do little to penalize homes with poor records of preventing and controlling infections. From 2017 to […]
How to Buy a Real N95 Mask Online
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, buying a heavy-duty medical mask online remains downright maddening.The most coveted mask to keep safe against Covid-19 has been the N95, the gold standard […]
A Year After Wuhan, China Tells a Tale of Triumph (and No Mistakes)
At a museum in Wuhan, China, a sprawling exhibition paints a stirring tale of how the city’s sacrifices in a brutal 76-day lockdown led to triumph over the coronavirus and, […]