Personality Changes: New research suggests that Covid's disruption of social rituals and rites of passage have made people less extroverted, creative, agreeable and conscientious.
But fewer are getting booster shots, surveys indicate. A Decline Among Seniors: Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of Covid vaccinations.Updated Boosters for Kids: The Food and Drug Administration broadened access to updated Covid booster shots to include children as young as 5.Warnings of a ‘Tripledemic’: An expected winter rise in Covid cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent flu season and a third pathogen straining pediatric hospitals in some states.“It gets hard to concentrate on the grid, and it’s hard to think in a robust way.” “I’ve noticed, not only in my students, but also in myself, a tendency to flag,” he said. Jeffrey Golde, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, has been teaching his previously in-person leadership class via Zoom for about a month now and he has found it strangely wearing. Our brains strain to fill in the gaps and make sense of the disorder, which makes us feel vaguely disturbed, uneasy and tired without quite knowing why. These disruptions, some below our conscious awareness, confound perception and scramble subtle social cues. The problem is that the way the video images are digitally encoded and decoded, altered and adjusted, patched and synthesized introduces all kinds of artifacts: blocking, freezing, blurring, jerkiness and out-of-sync audio. You might be better off just talking on the phone. Psychologists, computer scientists and neuroscientists say the distortions and delays inherent in video communication can end up making you feel isolated, anxious and disconnected (or more than you were already).
Their faces arranged in a grid reminiscent of the game show “ Hollywood Squares,” people are attending virtual happy hours and birthday parties, holding virtual business meetings, learning in virtual classrooms and having virtual psychotherapy.īut there are reasons to be wary of the technology, beyond the widely reported security and privacy concerns. Last month, global downloads of the apps Zoom, Houseparty and Skype increased more than 100 percent as video conferencing and chats replaced the face-to-face encounters we are all so sorely missing.
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