In December 2024, on the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN-Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated: “The COVID-19 crisis may have passed, but a harsh lesson remains: The world is ...
The Compounding Disasters Study Committee and NASEM staff will convene a virtual panel of community stakeholders to discuss their personal experiences preparing for and recovering from disasters that.
In the late winter and early spring of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic grew from a geographically limited viral infection into a full-blown national emergency, disrupting life as we knew it. The ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — On Aug. 10, 2020, after the most destructive storm most Iowa residents have ever seen, ...
Four years after COVID lockdowns began, two new books explore how 2020 changed us all. NPR's Michel Martin talks to writers Eric Klinenberg and Dr. Cornelia Griggs about their reflections. When we ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Host of the Retire Sooner podcast and CFP™ practitioner. The recent four-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s Covid ...
This summer marks five years since the 2020 uprising for Black lives — an anniversary that feels especially resonant right now, as protesters in cities like Minneapolis, where George Floyd was ...
This consensus study will examine the impacts of multiple, compounding disasters that occurred across the Gulf region from 2020-2021 and provide findings on what factors enabled or could enable ...