HEALTH

                 As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, households across the United States are hunkering down and emptying out store shelves that normally stocked with toilet paper and paper towels sit empty at all the big supermarket stores, toilet paper has become the ultimate symbol of the panic buying, it is seemingly scooped up as soon as new rolls hit the shelves, companies that help supply these everyday paper products are stunned and trying to adjust to this rapidly evolving new normal in consumer behavior. This run on toilet paper has struck many people as peculiar, given that the need for the product is not expected to grow as millions of Americans adjust to working from home, closed schools, canceled events and other abrupt interruptions to daily life caused by the pandemic, but stockpiling is not an uncommon reaction provoked by fear, social scientists say, fear of running out, fear of the unknown and what is coming in the fut...