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Pandemic Digital Board Game Is Being Delisted From Mulitple Stores For Unknown Reasons
Image: Asmodee / Z-Man Games / KotakuThe digital board game version of Pandemic has disappeared from Steam after it was quietly delisted on January 6. And it will be removed from other digital storefronts throughout the year. Its publisher, Asmodee, hasn’t yet explained why beyond a vague statement that the game is being removed for…
Parents say US pandemic lockdown brought family togetherness
During the first several months of the pandemic in the U.S., Dina Levy made her young daughter and son go on walks with her three times a day.They kicked a soccer ball around at the nearby high school. The children, then 11 and 8, created an obstacle course out of chalk and the three timed…
E3 2022 goes online-only because the pandemic is still a big problem
The massive trade event E3 will take place this year as expected, but with one big, disappointing change: it’ll be entirely online. This isn’t a surprising announcement given the recent massive uptick in variant-of-concern Omicron transmission, which is fueling record COVID-19 case numbers in the US where the trade show is held. Miguel Lagoa/Shutterstock E3…
Covid-19: What can we expect from the pandemic in 2022?
In the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, expect more variants, lower death rates and some continuing restrictions Health 4 January 2022 By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson and Helen Thomson Theme park visitors show their covid passes in France, July 2021SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS/AFP via Getty Images While the pandemic is unlikely to fully end in 2022, we…
Pandemic prognosis: Where does it go from here?
Two years in, as the now Omicron-fuelled Covid crisis rages, there is still hope the pandemic could begin fading in 2022 -- though experts say gaping vaccine inequalities must be addressed. It may seem like a far-off reality, as countries impose fresh restrictions to address the fast-spreading new variant and surging cases and a depressing…
Pandemic shopping ups shipping emissions
The pandemic-driven shopping spree is having at least one unintended consequence: emissions from shipping are on the rise again. Bored at home, consumers ordered everything from washing machines to Peloton exercise bikes, fueling a global trade in goods and boosting demand for ships to deliver them. With so many orders on the books, the fleet…
The National Academy of Medicine yesterday launched an initiative to reduce the U.S. health sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. But even leaders of the so-called Climate Collaborative fear that it faces insurmountable obstacles from the ongoing pandemic. The public-private partnership among NAM; the Department of Health and Human Services; and more than 50 partners, including big-name…
Lessons from A.I.’s rare pandemic success
Any business could learn from Greece's experience screening arrivals for coronavirus Read More
Pandemic Pot Use Proliferated in Pregnant Women
More pregnant women used cannabis in the early stages of pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic than prior to it, researchers found. Based on urine tests performed at about 8 weeks' gestation, the standardized rate of prenatal cannabis use was 8.14% (95% CI 7.85-8.43%) for pregnancies from April to December 2020 compared with 6.75% (95% CI…
Pandemic slows for fourth week
The coronavirus pandemic continued to slow down for a fourth week in a row around the world. Here is the global state of play based on an AFP database. Slowing down The number of new daily cases dropped globally by eight percent last week to 510,000, according to an AFP tally to Thursday. However, the…