A version of this article appeared in this week’s It’s Not Just You newsletter. SUBSCRIBE HERE to have It’s Not Just You delivered to your inbox every Sunday.
OH, THE PLACES WE’RE DESPERATE TO GO
Lately, in that gray-blue hour before a winter sunrise, I’ve taken to staying in bed and flying to Moroc…
Read moreIn two papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers in Europe provide the most detailed explanation yet for what is behind the clotting side effects reported among people getting vaccinated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot.
In both papers, researchers found that people getting the vaccine had higher levels of antibodies directed against a cluster …
Read moreContracting COVID-19 during pregnancy may put expectant mothers at a higher risk of delivering early, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC’s new report is based on data from almost 4,500 people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 during pregnancy and provided public health departments with information about their pregnancy outcom…
Read moreLiving with mental-health disorders is challenging enough without adding physical ailments to the mix. But recent research suggests that people with psychiatric disorders also have higher rates of Type 2 diabetes, and the combination can be devastating.
“When people who have pre-existing mental illnesses develop diabetes, their outcomes are much worse,” says Anne Doherty, an a…
Read moreEast Africa’s biggest economy exported clothing worth $380 million in 2015, when the US extended its African Growth and Opportunity Act agreement by a decade, according to Phyllis Wakiaga, the CEO of KAM.“The 10 year extension of the AGOA agreement has offered African manufacturers more confidence to make long-term investments, especially in apparel,” Wakiaga said, according to a Bloomber…
Read moreThe facility, which will serve as the company’s North American distribution center, is expected to employ 130 people by 2023. According to Brooks, the center’s Midwest location, coupled with energy efficiencies in the building’s design, will result in a reduction of around 50% in the emissions produced by distribution operations when compared to the company’s previous distribution cent…
Read moreThe WRC’s analysis shows that, in 2001, China paid the lowest real wages in the textile industry among all Asian countries. After the decision taken by the Chinese government in 2004 to introduce staggered minimum-wage increases, salaries however began to grow, eventually rising by 124% in ten years. This wage rise brought about an increase in the levels of quality in Chinese apparel manufactur…
Read moreThe job retention scheme, announced by the UK government in light of the coronavirus pandemic, enables companies to continue employing people who otherwise have been laid off. The government will cover 80% of their salaries up to a ceiling of £2,500 a month to ensure people whose job has been temporarily suspended can continue to be paid. Many firms have already announced plans to use the sc…
Read moreHaving started off with masks for staff in China in early stages of the pandemic, the Swedish group is working with several suppliers to ramp up output of masks for health workers, as well as hand sanitisers, visors and single-use aprons.The first batches for European healthcare facilities are in transit, Henrik Elm, global supply manager at brand owner Inter Ikea Group, which is in charge of s…
Read moreFashion was strong but there were signs that discounts were key and the report came with warnings that retailers need to drive full-price sales soon as the mega-discount season that starts in November isn’t that far away.June’s results outperformed the three-month, six-month, and 12-month rolling averages (respectively -0.5%, +5.4%, +6.9%) and the sales also managed to rise 5.1% month-on-mo…
Read more