C.D.C. Recommends Covid Vaccines During Pregnancy
New research shows the shots do not increase risk of miscarriage, the agency said, but the risks of severe disease from a coronavirus infection while pregnant are serious.
W.H.O. Testing 3 Drugs in Broad Search for Covid Treatments
The World Health Organization is testing three additional drugs as part of an enormous global trial to find effective treatments for Covid-19, the agency announced on Wednesday. The trial, which involves researchers at more than 600 hospitals in 52 countries, will evaluate whether the drugs that have already been approved for other uses — one…
Focaccia Recipes to Cook Right Now
Good morning. Who knows where the desire to cook this dish or that one comes from, what triggers a synapse to fire? I watched a brief video clip of a friend dimpling some focaccia the other day, sun-gold olive oil over a pillowy cloud of dough, and suddenly that was all I wanted to make…
When Every Plan Is Subject to Change
Welcome. In a meeting of the At Home and Away team on Monday, we discussed the tentative way we’re making plans now. Minju just received an email informing her that her daughter’s gymnastics class begins in four weeks, time to sign up. With news of the Delta variant changing our perceptions of what’s safe by…
Counties Reopen Virus Testing Sites as Demand Surges in the U.S.
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads in the United States, some counties are reopening community testing sites that they shuttered last spring, when case counts were falling and attention was shifting to vaccination. The demand for testing has been rising over the last month. By the end of July, an average of nearly…
C.D.C. Endorses Covid Vaccinations for Pregnant People
Federal health officials on Wednesday bolstered their recommendation that pregnant people be vaccinated against Covid-19, pointing to new safety data that found no increased risk of miscarriage among those who were immunized during the first 20 weeks of gestation. Earlier research found similarly reassuring data for those vaccinated later in pregnancy. Until now, the Centers…
U.K. Salon Industry Long Underserved Black Clients. It’s Vowing to Change That.
LEEDS, England — The purr of the gold clippers breaks the silence inside the Piranha Hair Studio as Qasim Sajjad teaches a lesson on how to cut Black hair. Brian Swarry, the studio’s owner, offers extra instruction via Facetime while a junior hairdresser watches and listens. It is an unremarkable scene, except that the junior…
13 Vegetarian Recipes That Give Pasta and Beans a Break
Dried pasta and canned beans are vegetarian pantry staples for a reason: They are often the backbone of quick, tasty and satisfying meatless cooking. But if the sight of another box of rigatoni makes your eye twitch, or the thought of strolling down an aisle of cannellini beans triggers your fight-or-flight response, maybe it’s time…
Pining for the Intimacy of Pandemic Pods
It was the kind of raucous night out that Reece Clark, 32, a lawyer who lives in Olathe, Kan., had been dreaming about during the dark days of 2020: a boisterous group of friends and colleagues packed into a tiny karaoke room, with music and laughter ricocheting off the walls. But even while enjoying this…
House Hunting in Hungary: A Modern Mash-up for $895,000
Market Overview Hungary, the landlocked Central European nation of hills and plains with about 10 million residents, saw home prices double in the decade between 2010 and the first quarter of 2021, with only two other European Union countries (Estonia and Luxembourg) outpacing it in that growth, according to Eurostat, using data from the Hungarian…