New York City has decreased indoor restaurant capacity but is allowing restaurants to expand outdoors. Restaurants are moving tables onto the sidewalks and into curbside parking spaces. Read this NPR news article to learn about New York City’s new dining spaces and then answer the following questions.
Month: August 2020
COVID-19 Hits UNC Chapel Hill
After one week of in-person classes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, the university reported 130 cases of COVID-19 and moved to online classes. Read this USA Today news article to learn about online learning at UNC Chapel Hill and then answer the following questions.
COVID-19 Vaccines in Development
Governments are pouring billions of dollars into the development and production of COVID-19 vaccines. Three pharmaceutical companies are making headlines: Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax. Read this CNN news article to learn about them and then answer the following questions. Instructors using the Bade or Parkin texts can assign these questions and an essay in MyLab … Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccines in Development
COVID-19 Vaccines and What Economists Think
Any first-year economics student will tell you that economics can get hard. And the truth is: They’re right. In fact, the brightest and best-trained economists sometimes don’t agree about complex issues. The Initiative on Global Markets is a research centre located at the University of Chicago that routinely polls leading economists about issues relevant to … Continue reading COVID-19 Vaccines and What Economists Think