“It has no risk — except boredom,” Dr. Dalton said wryly. Before you begin, however, it is wise to rule out other conditions that could be affecting your sense of smell. “I saw somebody recently who had smell dysfunction following Covid-19, and it turned out they had inflammatory nasal polyps,” said Dr. Sunthosh K. Sivam,…
Courtesy of the subject; Bieber: BackgridGetty Images Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. If you’re seeing angels everywhere right now, it’s not a symptom of divine hallucinations—it’s Fiorucci. The cherubim-branded label that once dressed Madonna and Cher can now be seen on Hailey Bieber, Miley Cyrus and…
Though Margo Price has long seen herself as a counterculturalist — especially within Nashville’s country scene — she has been spending the pandemic like many people: stuck at home and patiently waiting for it to be over. “It’s kind of like the rug’s been pulled out from under me,” Ms. Price, 37, said in a…
Every day for two weeks she visited each site, lifted the cheesecloth covers and fed the starters flour and tap water, careful to check the jar on the bridge only when nobody was looking. (She’d petitioned the city for a permit but never heard back.) When it came time to bake the loaves, the Met’s…
For all these reasons, senior officials say, the administration is leaning toward keeping the doses it has ordered then at some point directing the excess to other nations in bilateral deals or giving it to Covax, an international nonprofit organization backed by the World Health Organization that is trying to coordinate equitable distribution of vaccine.…
“I think in New York, people are trying to figure out these dynamics of are you getting the dose because it was left over, or a condition that qualifies you or did you lie about something,” said Mr. Das. “The honest reality is I know people who have cut the line and lied about things…
Caroline Gholson had often told Andrew Fallon that she wanted him to propose over coffee — in bed. “Coffee in bed is our Sunday morning ritual,” said Ms. Gholson, 37, the senior recruiting and development manager in Houston for the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. “The concept of a public proposal,” she said, “mortifies me.”…
Eventually Saman Akhtar had to know what Mohammed Islam was thinking. “I actually directly asked him: Do you like me? What is going on?” she said. By that point, they had spent time together in New York, Washington and San Francisco and were texting on a daily basis. But beyond flowing conversation and a hug…
With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Alina Cho Age: 50 Occupation: journalist Favorite charities: Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Literacy Partners, the Battery Conservancy, the Scarlett Fund, Appeal of Conscience Foundation Where have you been hunkering down?…
He didn’t. By the spring of 2016 they were an exclusive couple. In 2017, they sold most of their belongings and started living in Airbnb rentals throughout the country, in cities including Chicago and Los Angeles, for 30-day bursts. “We wanted to have an adventure, and an adventure in getting to know each other in…