The main concern about B.1.1.7 is that it is highly infectious and spreads quickly among the unvaccinated, potentially overwhelming hospitals in areas where cases are surging. Do the vaccines work against B.1.1.7? All of the major vaccines in use — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Sputnik and Novavax — have been shown to be…
Carol Ann Lincoff was born on July 28, 1938, in Pittsburgh. Her father, Escher, owned a jewelry store in suburban Braddock, Pa.; her mother, Jeanne (Katzive) Lincoff, was a travel agent. As a teenager, Carol loved opera, Broadway musicals and old things. She studied English literature at Barnard College, and spent one summer as an…
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said on Thursday that he hoped the nation would soon be able to resume use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as a “pause” that now looks indefinite threatened to upend vaccination efforts overseas and in some of the most marginalized communities in the United States. Dr. Fauci, President Biden’s chief…
At Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, for instance, which abuts Willapa National Wildlife Refuge and Willapa Bay, you might catch sight of a pelagic species like a sooty shearwater, while hundreds of thousands of shorebirds like black-bellied plovers work the wet sand. If you’re extremely lucky, you might see an enigmatic marbled murrelet in an ancient…
Listen and follow Still ProcessingApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Social media apologies have become the standard celebrity response to internet outrage. But why do they feel so deeply inadequate? Jenna and Wesley dissect a new spate of public apologies from the last year. And they look to the activist and writer adrienne maree brown…
After weeks of rumors and retractions, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, two of the world’s great New Yorkers, announced on Thursday that they were ready for something new. Something apart. As the magnolias and cherry trees burst into blossom and vaccines go into arm after arm, many New Yorkers are asking themselves: What’s next, after…
For more than a year, Dr. Andrew Wollowitz has mostly been cloistered inside his home in Mamaroneck, N.Y. As chief of emergency medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, Dr. Wollowitz, 63, was eager to help treat patients when the coronavirus began raging through the city last spring. But a cancer treatment in 2019…
The couches were nice, and the Orange County home where Ms. Ellman picked them up was even nicer. Ms. Ellman ended up really liking Ms. Hutsona, who volunteered to deliver the couches to her home later that evening. But Ms. Hutsona had a tale of woe: Her family’s new Malibu apartment had mold! Ms. Ellman,…
It’s not every day you turn 100, and in Gucci’s case, they’re not horsing around. In celebration of its centennial, the brand is rolling out projects throughout the year, and despite it only being April, we’ve clocked all the headlines: It started with a partnership with The North Face that sold out internationally; Then there…
A Modern Five-Bedroom House in Sintra, Portugal $3.6 MILLION (3 MILLION EUROS) This contemporary villa sits on nearly three acres in the tourist-friendly town of Sintra, about three miles from Portugal’s southwestern coastline and about 25 miles west of Lisbon. Built in 2008 from concrete and glass, the approximately 10,700-square-foot house has five bedrooms and…