#pandemics-impact

#pandemics-impact

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said in a CNBC interview that remote work is "perfectly reasonable to help women."Dimon said the pandemic "taught us the burden on women" as caretakers "is enormous."Remote work is reasonable for some jobs, Dimon said, but it doesn't work for "young kids" and managers.

University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members began striking Tuesday after their union said 12 hours of negotiations with administrators on Martin Luther King Jr. Day didn't produce an agreement."We passed proposals back and forth with the management team from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., when they passed us a counter that indicated that they had no interest in resolving our differences," the union, UIC United Faculty, wrote on its website.

China's "zero covid" policy initially saved lives, kept hospitals from being overwhelmed and gave the country time to disseminate vaccines.But it essentially pushed much of the pandemic's impact into the future.Now, that future has arrived.When China ended the drastic lockdowns and restrictions that were in place for the past three years, it triggered a surge of cases and deaths in a population with little natural immunity and low levels of vaccine boosting.