A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first indication of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. In studies on mice and hamsters, Omicron produced less damaging infections, often limited largely to the upper airway: the nose, throat and windpipe. The variant…
Good morning. Greetings from isolation on this final day of what was for many an unsettling, un-fun year. There’ll be no Champagne and caviar for me tonight, no elegant roast, no countdown to 2022. I might tie some flies, listen to an old Ry Cooder show. Quarantine and testing, here’s to auld lang syne. I…
“We’re seeing unprecedented demand for BinaxNOW and we’re sending them out as fast as we can make them,” said a spokesman for Abbott, the company that produces BinaxNow. Updated Dec. 31, 2021, 7:30 a.m. ET The uncertainty has some people hedging their bets, setting up multiple tests in case one doesn’t come through in time.…
5 Ways to Tell 2022 Who Is in Charge Gina Cherelus��Reporting from Brooklyn, N.Y. Pakin Songmor/Getty Images And finally, for all you overachievers out there, begin filling out your digital calendar or physical planner with birthdays of loved ones and other important dates. You’ll feel even more ready to conquer what lies ahead.
Un nuevo estudio llega a tiempo para las fiestas: las personas que hacen ejercicio con regularidad tienden a beber una sorpresiva cantidad de alcohol.
Para muchas personas, las relaciones románticas han quedado en segundo plano durante la pandemia. “Las parejas se adaptaron a rutinas que se convirtieron en una manera más casual de relacionarse”, dijo Damona Hoffman, asesora de citas de Los Ángeles y conductora del pódcast Dates & Mates (Citas y Parejas). “No podíamos salir de noche ni…
Now It’s All Fresh Fish We are grandparents. The age when most couples stay put. “We need something new,” I said as our Trader Joe’s fish defrosted in our suburban Maryland kitchen. “Why not sell the house? We’re retired and the kids are settled. And you know it’s been my dream to live abroad while…
“My father always said be true to your own life and your own reality,” Mr. Guthrie said. His reality, and Ms. Ladd’s, had become anchored to a sense of life’s fragility. “Not only is life fragile, it’s shorter than you think,” he said. “And when you find somebody who is your friend, who brings you…
As a second-year medical student at Michigan State University, Dr. Aliyya Terry was scrolling through Facebook in February 2017 when she stopped on a photo taken at an event on campus that included Martin Childs IV. “His face stood out instantly to me,” Dr. Terry said. The reason he was so familiar: Mr. Childs and…
No one ever really owned up to their part in how, during the summer of 2015, Elliot Imani Griffin and Matthew Armand Stitt ended up on an impromptu date after the biweekly Flow fund-raiser, an event for young Black professionals in Philadelphia. “I’m not sure how much engineering took place,” said Ms. Griffin. Mr. Stitt,…