Holly Lane never anticipated long-term disruptions in education when the pandemic started forcing schools to close last spring.  “When schools...
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.
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.