pandemic

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The announcement immediately triggered a global stock market panic, resulting in the largest decline since 2020, when the stock market crashed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

This is where pharmaceutical logistics comes in -- a fast-growing sector in a world where key supply chains have been shaken by war, pandemic and trade chaos.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Wage growth for rank-and-file workers slowed to its weakest year-over-year pace since the pandemic reopening five years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

"But life expectancy nationally is lower now than it was before the pandemic," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

And even this enormous force might not have overcome the empire if while Cortes was building his ships Tenochtitlan had not been swept by smallpox in the same pandemic that later wiped out Tawantinsuyu.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann