Many patients being hospitalized have underlying health conditions like diabetes, obesity or high blood pressure that are risk factors for severe disease, he said. But some younger patients have none of those risk factors. “That’s what really frightens me,” he said. “It’s hitting younger healthy people that you wouldn’t think would have such a bad…
Although most children with Covid-19 recover within a week, a small percentage experience long-term symptoms, according to a new study of more than 1,700 British children. The researchers found that 4.4 percent of children have symptoms that last four weeks or longer, while 1.8 percent have symptoms that last for eight weeks or longer. The…
Four Impeccable Eggs “There’s a nest under there!” my older son announced. Sure enough, on a sideways ladder under our deck was a perfect bird’s nest. We watched as a pair of robins darted in and out, finishing their creation. Lockdown days were long as I mothered two young boys while grieving the unexpected loss…
Tchotchkes can be a kind of design gateway drug. “There is no limit to how many tchotchke things you can own,” said Annie Auchincloss, the home buyer for the MoMA Design Store. “It’s just really endless, what can become an objet. A beautiful postmodern design teakettle can be totally impractical to use, but can be…
As long as the restaurant business is examining its assumptions about the way it operates, maybe it is time to ask whether experience in famous kitchens is overrated. The thought has been on my mind since I started eating at Cadence, a vegan restaurant in the East Village. The chef is Shenarri Freeman, and Cadence…
Headliner Bar Blondeau Occasionally, the pandemic has had salutary results, and this new bar on the sixth floor of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg is one example. When they opened Le Crocodile, the French brasserie on the hotel’s ground floor, the partners, Jon Neidich and the chefs Aidan O’Neal and Jake Leiber, had their eye…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Sometimes it’s not a major news headline that stays with you, but something a bit smaller. When I read that Julia “Hurricane” Hawkins took up running at age 100, I was struck by her verve…
BUTTE, Mont. — Danny Wong had a system for catching thieves. The longtime owner and face of Pekin Noodle Parlor, the oldest family-owned, continuously operating Chinese restaurant in the United States, ordered servers to lock the front door at the sound of fast footsteps rattling the floorboards. Diners trying to flee the second-story dining room…
August brings about the very best that summer has to offer: hot days, the unbridled confidence of Leo season, and the chance to rock your most summer-ready outfits before fall takes over. Watch this space as the indisputably best month of summer promises to deliver on fashion news, launches, and collaborations. Marc Jacobs Debuts Devon…
According to the National Park Service, the architect Frank Redford, who had patented his design for a tepee-shaped building, disliked that word so he called them wigwams instead. Wigwams are domed, cone-shaped or rectangular structures used by the Algonquian and some other Indigenous people in the eastern half of North America. In 1938, Chester Lewis…