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The pandemic resulted in a greater gap between digital and non-digital firms. [87] From 2019 to 2020, the proportion of EU enterprises employing advanced digital technology in their operations expanded dramatically. From 2020 to 2021, this percentage remained relatively stable, reaching 61% in 2021, compared to 63% in 2020 and 58% in 2019.
As of 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV‑2). Its effect has been broad, affecting general society, the global economy, culture, ecology, politics, and other areas. These aspects are discussed across many articles:
Chaos and the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may have made a catastrophic future seem less remote and action to prevent it more necessary. However, it may also have the opposite effect by having minds focus on the more immediate threat of the pandemic rather than the climate crisis or the prevention of other disasters.
Others have also called for the pandemic to be used as an opportunity to reset the effects caused by global warming. Charity The coronavirus lockdown has showed the nation at its best in terms of ...
The pandemic left millions of people in the U.S. at-risk when it comes to nutrition and overall health status. The pandemic complicated food insecurity among children, older adults, and undocumented immigrants. Feeding America stated that the estimated number of food-insecure kids could jump from 11 million to an estimated 18 million.
The pandemic put tremendous strain on the American incarceration system due to crowds of vulnerable inmates and limited access to medical care. [57] The social distancing required to minimize the spread of infection has been difficult if not impossible to practice in compliance with existing standards of practice; and facilities were slow to ...
[73] The NGEU funds were distributed to member states based on the severity of the pandemic's economic effects, with countries like Italy, Spain, and Greece receiving substantial allocations. The program required recipients to submit recovery and resilience plans outlining specific projects and reforms tied to the EU's green and digital priorities.
University students felt “isolated from the rest of society” during the Covid-19 pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Matthew Crilly, who was the National Union of Students of Scotland (NUSS ...