For years, long COVID has been defined almost entirely by what patients report feeling: fatigue, brain fog, memory lapses, a loss of motivation that won’t lift. Doctors have struggled to treat a symptom with no clear physical marker, and the condition has reshaped workplaces as employers scramble to accommodate it. But despite the shared symptoms,
The net worths of CEOs and founders are largely at the whim of their company stock—all it takes is one breakout earnings report or blockbuster news to shake up their fortunes. Now, Moderna cofounder Robert Langer has re-entered the billionaires club following promising cancer vaccine trials that sent the company’s stock soaring. Langer, known as
For nearly 50 years, one number barely moved. Every year or two, the General Social Survey asks Americans how happy they are, and for decades the balance between “very happy” and “not too happy” held steady, from 1972 through 2018. But as soon as the pandemic hit, it came cratering down. Sam Peltzman, an economist
