Browsing: Pandemic
Meet the 81-year-old CEO who built a $10.4 billion luxury cruise line tailored just for baby boomers: ‘They’re the richest group we have around’
A veteran cruise attendee at just 24 years old, Julia Wilcox is used to her inbox flooding with promotional emails…
In the United States, the leading preventable cause of death is tobacco and second is poor diet and physical inactivity.…
British used car startup Cazoo was once worth $7 billion. It’s since lost nearly 100% of its value and is flirting with bankruptcy—what went wrong?
Cazoo’s growth was spectacular, even for a tech platform. The British used car startup achieved unicorn status only months after…
The dark days of the pandemic are finally in the past for most of us—and that seems to be reflected…
This headteacher is preparing ‘homebird’ Gen Z pupils for the world of work by bringing in a 12-hour school day, public speaking lessons and a smartphone ban
Gen Z workers came of age during the pandemic—and bosses say it shows. Employers frequently accuse their youngest recruits of…
California said its population grew last year for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020 amid decreased mortality…
MedMen’s spectacular collapse is complete: Just five years after earning a whopping $3 billion valuation, the one-time legal cannabis darling has declared bankruptcy
Six years after an IPO that saw its valuation peak at over $3 billion, cannabis retailer MedMen is worth next…
Home prices skyrocketed 40% during the pandemic—but Zillow sees them rising less than 2% this year
In roughly two years during the pandemic housing boom, home prices rose more than 40%. Since then, home prices continued…
Alcohol-related liver disease: Hospitalizations increased among middle-aged women during COVID-19 pandemic
Alcohol-related health complications soared among middle-aged women during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study…
Biotech CEO who relied on multiple aliases sentenced to 7 years in prison for Theranos-like $28 million fraud involving a fake finger-prick Covid test
The CEO of a California biotech company, Decision Diagnostics, claimed to have a finger-prick test that could detect Covid-19 and…