A five-year study of over 120,000 Chinese adolescents found that the first pandemic year significantly raised BMI and ...

A renewal-model analysis of 122 countries shows that population mobility strongly tracked SARS-CoV-2 transmission in many ...

Lockdown-related stress led to more severe brain changes in girls, raising concerns about long-term mental health impacts, say scientists. Study: COVID-19 lockdown effects on adolescent brain ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world implemented restrictive measures—such as stay-at-home orders and school closures—to mitigate the spread of the respiratory illness. It's been ...

BEIJING--China’s factory activity contracted at a steeper pace in April as widespread COVID-19 lockdowns halted industrial ...

If people start most fires, keeping people indoors should mean fewer of them. When COVID-19 lockdowns kept people home in early 2020, that’s mostly what happened.

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. New research from the University of ...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul el Sayed took a very strict approach to public health restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago, supporting intense statewide lockdowns and ...

Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet for several weeks due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. It went so quiet, in fact, that scholars published a 2024 article in the Monthly Notices of the ...

An IBAC investigation has found senior public officers failed to warn the minister that hundreds of millions of dollars in ...