Collage of factory worker wearing a mask with conveyor belts super-imposed in background.
The supply chains for common household items — like cleaning supplies or hardware — have had difficulties before the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Person wearing protective mask and glasses with foggy lenses.
Now that a respiratory virus has made us fearful of passing each other in grocery store aisles and caused the masked among us to gaze reproachfully at the unmasked, suddenly, breathing seems complicated.
Lori Pennington
UF travel professor Lori Pennington-Gray talks about travel anxiety and the return of business in the travel industry.
A hospital in Kansas during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918.
UF Geography lecturer Gabriela Hamerlinck debuted a new class for Fall 2019: Pandemics. As the semester began, she was lecturing about history – the plagues of prehistory and the Black Death. By the end of the semester, current events were about to catch up with her lesson plan.