COVID-19's negative impact on caregivers and 4 ways to help them The COVID-19 pandemic has had an outsized impact on caregivers. ABC News ABC News

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Per research conducted by the National Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, family caregivers experienced more negative effects from the pandemic than those who weren't, including more emotional, physical and financial burdens. Female caregivers, younger caregivers and especially families with lower incomes experienced significant issues.

Hard hit by COVID-19, Black Americans are recovering slowly

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Two years into the pandemic and multiple variants that have resulted in one million deaths across the U.S., Black Americans are still suffering from COVID-19’s public health and economic consequences. The recovery of most people of color has been sporadic and uneven. From permanently closed businesses to limited access to health care, housing and food insecurity, increases in suicide and violent crime and educational setbacks, experts say it will take years before Black Americans are able to fully recover from the pandemic.

New York City’s neighborhoods have been thriving in the pandemic. Should we redefine ‘comeback’? The New York Times

For several weeks now, Mayor Eric Adams has been obsessively pushing a recovery agenda hinged on the return of tens of thousands of workers to offices in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. But the weekly average of new cases in New York has more than tripled over the last month, confirming the sense that every time we decide that the pandemic is behind us, it reasserts its power to obstruct...