By Wendy Martinez
December 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, the effect on the U.S economy was catastrophic. Many experts agreed that the US economy’s decline would have scarring effects for the years to come. In a report from the Peterson Institute for International Economics it is estimated that the United States economy is still short 6.2 million jobs over a year and a half after the pandemic started.
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Emma Muhlhall '21
September 2021
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, businesses all over the world have been forced to close their doors in order to prevent the spread of the highly contagious illness. Among these businesses were Broadway theatres. The once luminous lights of the stage were forced to turn off for the time being. This massive shutdown of New York City’s theatre district left hundreds of people out of work, forcing some to move elsewhere because of the loss of a steady financial income. The big question was: Is Broadway ever going to be able to reopen? This question has finally been answered after a year and a half of closed curtains, -Yes.
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Courtney Cocheo ‘21
November 2020
As a senior, I'm supposed to know what career I want to pursue for the rest of my life. But how does a seventeen year old figure out the rest of their life over the course of a year? And on top of my career, do I know if I want to stay close to home or move across the country?
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Asad Zamayar ‘22
October 2020
As the Covid-19 pandemic has extended into the 2020 school year, Greenport High School has taken the unorthodox approach of allowing its students to choose between hybrid learning or fully remote learning.
Learning remotely offers unique opportunities not available to students in the hybrid option. Students learning from home have more flexibility over their schedules.
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Sydney Heidtmann ‘22
October 2020
A miracle substance in horseshoe crab blood may hold the key to engineering a safe and effective vaccine for the novel COVID-19 virus, according to scientists. Though the prospect has drawn no small amount of opposition from conservationist groups concerned about the declining horseshoe crab population.
Horseshoe crabs have become increasingly important to the biomedical industry due to their primitive immune-like responses to bacteria. Their blood contains a substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which reacts with endotoxins in cells to find and measure bacterial toxins in the blood.
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Aidan Crowley ‘21
October 2020
The college admissions process has been one of the institutions most visibly upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, as students across the country had to cancel SAT tests, college visits, and in some cases the college search altogether due to changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.