Articles Containing Tag: pandemic

Tourism can have a lot of positive effects on a city or country. It helps bring money, supplies jobs, and promotes improvements in the area. But can there be too much of a good thing? The city of Venice, Italy,… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic may have caused problems for human health globally – but research shows it has led to issues for the world’s oceans and rivers, too. Face masks have been a common sight during the pandemic, as people tried… Read More

As the United States moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic, one of China’s biggest cities is under a strict lockdown. Shanghai has imposed severe coronavirus rules as China tries to keep a “Zero-COVID” policy. The idea is to prevent even… Read More

It has been nearly two years since one of the strangest events in modern times. For about two weeks, Americans and people in countries around the world flooded every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in a… Read More

Homecoming is a time for current students, staff, and former students to show appreciation for the school. Kids and advisors spend hours creating floats for the traditional parade. Each day leading up to the football game is meant to bring… Read More

A new medicine could be here to treat the coronavirus, and it’s getting a lot of attention. Drug companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that they have been testing a pill to treat COVID-19. The companies say the pill, called… Read More

After the cold spell of the Dark Ages and the Justinian plague, evidence suggests the climate in Europe warmed. This created what people now call the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), which some suggest lasted from about 950 to 1250. The… Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our way of life and has disrupted normalcy. Social media is filled with funny memes as people try to make light of the quarantine to get a few laughs during such tough times. And then… Read More

If we look at the history of pandemics and fighting diseases, there may be one or two lessons we can learn. Some of the responses to threats like the Black Death just didn’t work, but they may be just the… Read More

The word sacrifice is loaded with power – but does everyone fully understand what it means? A recent NBC/WSJ poll asked participants if they thought the COVID-19 crisis was the most significant public tragedy faced by Americans. The survey listed… Read More

The Coronavirus pandemic has forced people to practice social distancing to help prevent the spread of the virus. While COVID-19 is tragic, the pandemic couldn’t have come at a better time for the population to practice distancing while still being… Read More

Coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused a lot of anxiety around the world as more cases pop up and more people become infected. Confusion and concern escalated when the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the virus as a pandemic and people began… Read More