How did different countries fare in achieving a balance between infection control and economic stability during the COVID-19 pandemic? To address this question, researchers studied the temporal ...

Death rates among the poor were double the death rates of wealthy Americans. As the nation approaches the grim milestone of 1 million lives confirmed lost to COVID-19, a new report reveals the ...

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As 45 million Americans lost their jobs, U.S. billionaires made $584 billion. The novel coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated income inequality, experts say, stretching the racial wealth gap in ...

The Swiss economy shrank in the third quarter at the sharpest rate since the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The government attributed the contraction largely to a plunge in output from the ...