Coronvirus (Covid-19) Marketing News

AT&T is increasing its investment in underserved markets, but a top executive says lawmakers need to modernize the 40-year-old Lifeline program, too. Sarah Kelsey is an instructional coordinator at Greenup County School District in eastern Kentucky. Her school population is mostly rural and internet access is limited. “The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a lot of unequal learning experiences for our students,” Kelsey said. “About 25 percent of our students don’t have access to internet, which is causing a great deal of students to fall behind.” Read Full Story

A new report from the Brookings Institution argues that the U.S. should invest more in R&D and be more willing to experiment. When American infrastructure is in the news, it’s usually bad. A bridge collapses . A storm wipes out power . Water pipes poison a community . Read Full Story

Don’t worry. The first thing to understand is that the risk of blood clots seems to be extraordinarily low. I got the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Monday afternoon, the same day that my California county opened up vaccinations to people under the age of 50. Twelve hours later, I woke up to the news that the CDC and FDA had recommended an immediate pause in the use of the vaccine as they investigate a potential link to a rare type of dangerous blood clots. What now? Read Full Story

Officials say the pandemic helped the one-horned rhino population in a big way.

COVID-19 passports are imperfect solutions to a massive problem. And yes, the people building them are very aware. In late March, New York announced the launch of the Excelsior Pass. Colloquially, it’s what is called a COVID-19 passport. Read Full Story

The e-commerce giant recently announced a huge healthcare expansion. The rest of the industry will have to build more seamless, user-focused experiences to compete. That Amazon Prime membership could soon come with a free same-day doctor’s appointment. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that we need a robust digital healthcare system that extends from the doctor’s office into the home—and the e-commerce Goliath just jumped into the ring prepared to win it all. Read Full Story

So far there have been six reported cases of “a rare and severe type of blood clot” in those who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the FDA. It hasn’t been a good few weeks for COVID-19 vaccines. Over the last few weeks, a number of countries have drastically limited the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to blood clot fears in younger people. Now, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it is recommending all states pause the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to blood clotting issues as well. Read Full Story

A 2021 Qualtrics survey reveals the migration patterns of different workers since the beginning of COVID-19. The advent of remote work brought on a slew of new disruptions to our concept of work, from how employees think about workplace benefits to more enlightened definitions of work-life boundaries . Read Full Story

If you’re searching for an old tweet, there’s an easier way to find it than just scrolling through your timeline. This guide teaches you how. Why Finding Old Tweets Matters There are a million reasons you may want to uncover your own or someone else’s old tweets. Maybe you tweeted a brilliant business idea last year, but you can’t remember what it was. Perhaps you remember making a particularly witty comment and want to see how many retweets it got. It could even be something as simple as seeing what your now-favorite celebrity was tweeting about before they got famous. Finding old tweets could also be a case of saving face or saving your reputation. We’ve all said things we’re not proud of in the past. The trouble is the permanency of the internet means off-hand comments can be hard to escape. We’ve all seen stories of five-year-old tweets coming …

The IRS this week posted an update reminding people who usually pay estimated income tax each quarter that they still have to do so by April 15. Federal taxes are due a month later this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but not everyone who owes Uncle Sam gets until May 17 . Read Full Story

Stimulus checks have been in the news since last year after Congress approved the first round of payments under the CARES Act. Though a lot has been reported about the stimulus payment, many people are still not aware of a few interesting facts about the coronavirus stimulus checks. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and […]

If you’re starting to think you’re ready for a new job or role, here’s what to consider. As the months of the COVID-19 pandemic have worn on, lots of people have had time to reflect on their careers. For one thing, a lot of people have lost their jobs or have had to reorient their focus because of the influences of the pandemic on their work. For another, work has played a more central role in many people’s lives because social interactions and hobbies have been harder to pursue. Read Full Story

This is incredible. Is there COVID-19 on this train car? Is there COVID-19 in this restaurant? Is there COVID-19 at this grocery store? Is there COVID-19 . . . in me? These are the questions we’ve been asking ourselves every second of the day over the last year of this pandemic, ever fearful of an invisible enemy that could be floating in the air anywhere. Read Full Story

The alleged culprits are both in their thirties and famous in the gaming world.

The fare is so low, your bag pays more than you do. As the United States continues to inoculate its population at record pace, long-suffering airline companies are readying for an explosion of travel as cooped up Americans stretch their wings once again. Major carriers are canceling their flexible refund policies, unblocking their middle seats , packing their flight schedules, and haggling with government agencies over COVID-19 vaccine passports. And one plucky company is launching a brand-new budget carrier in the midst of the global pandemic. Read Full Story

In 1954, 1.3 million kids participated in a nationwide test that helped end one of the 20th century’s scariest threats. When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines last December—a year after the coronavirus was first identified in Wuhan, China—it was a dramatic piece of good news after one of the most disruptive years the country has ever experienced. Read Full Story

A simple tool reveals all the restrictions and safety measures in place that are required for your trip. Now that people are being vaccinated in greater numbers, many are thinking of traveling once again. But before you get on a plane, it’s important to check what travel restrictions are in place by your origin and destination countries. Do you need to be vaccinated to travel? Do you need to quarantine on arrival? Are there restrictions on the countries you have traveled to before you continue onwards? Read Full Story

The new OE1 line embraces a more flexible, less prescriptive workplace. COVID-19 changed everything about work. And no one knows exactly what the office of tomorrow will look like—not even the storied American design brand Herman Miller, a company that has been furnishing offices for decades. Which is why the Herman Miller’s latest furniture collection is designed precisely for uncertainty. Read Full Story

Ending your daily commute might lower your footprint—but not always. When businesses and schools shut down in Los Angeles a year ago for the pandemic, the city’s smoggy skies cleared and rush hour traffic disappeared . Pollution also shrank in other cities . It seemed like a sign of how much climate emissions and air pollution could drop if companies decided to let more employees work from home permanently. Read Full Story

Covid-19 appears to have a far bigger impact on neurological and mental health conditions compared to the flu, according to researchers.