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In 2020, school systems in the United States began to close down in March because of the spread of COVID-19. This was a historic event in the history of the United States schooling system because it forced schools to shut-down. At the very peak of school closures, COVID-19 affected 55.1 million students in 124,000 public and private U.S ...
The COVID-19 lockdowns has widened the gender gap in education between females and males. The rapid spread of COVID-19 lockdowns forced many females into the traditional roles as caretakers. Common gender disparities that impact a female's education during the pandemic are finances enabling higher dropout rates, domestic violence, child ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
Public health experts are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ this winter. Here’s where flu, COVID, RSV, and norovirus are spreading
The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2] The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3]
Schools across the country are discovering that there's no perfect strategy for curbing students' phone use.
[b] The COVID-19 pandemic also saw the emergence of misinformation and conspiracy theories, [39] and highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. public health system. [17] [40] [41] In the United States, there have been 103,436,829 [3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,216,819 [3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per ...
Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a public health department.