Lockdowns and social-distancing measures aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus seem to have shortened the influenza season in the northern hemisphere by about six weeks. Globally, an estimated ...

If people start most fires, keeping people indoors should mean fewer of them. When COVID-19 lockdowns kept people home in early 2020, that’s mostly what happened.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that, after years of declining crime rates, crimes against people and property spiked in 2020 and for a period ...

Tens of millions of people around the world have suddenly found themselves under various forms of lockdown as governments scrambled to impose new coronavirus-related restrictions over the past 24 ...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul el Sayed took a very strict approach to public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago, supporting intense statewide lockdowns and ...

A difference-in-differences analysis of monthly Turkish sectoral data finds that COVID-19 labor market disruptions were ...

Chronic violence, insecurity and now COVID-related restrictions have put tens of thousands of Central Americans at risk of increased hardship and even death, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) ...