BALLABGARH, India — In late November, an urgent email popped up in the inbox of Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices, one of the world’s largest syringe makers. It was from UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, and it was desperately seeking syringes. Not just any would do. These syringes must be smaller than usual.…
Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance. They sparred over whether to enroll everyone in public coverage — the preferred policy of Senator Bernie Sanders — or to give everyone a choice to do so, the public option plan that President Biden supports. The candidates…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The numbers began ticking up in September. After a quiet summer, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital began seeing one or two patients with Covid-19 on each shift — and soon three. Then four. Cases climbed steadily until early December, when Rhode Island earned the dubious distinction of having more cases and deaths…
She endorses reimbursing staff members for time and expenses. But, she noted: “There’s good evidence from behavioral economics that offering money signals taking risks. These vaccines really are safe and effective, so we don’t want to solidify people’s fears.” Although Covid-19 cases and deaths are falling in long-term facilities, even those with high vaccination rates…
When they set out for San Diego from Denver in April 2016, Kate Googins and Tyler Tetreault were not a couple, just two people who had dated briefly six weeks earlier and continued to stay in touch afterward. A little more than halfway through their road trip, outside Sedona, Ariz., they recognized that at some…
Andrew Campbell almost passed up the chance to be married for free on Feb. 12 in Atlanta. “I’m from the South, and my mom has always been all about decorum,” he said. He saw a flier advertising free weddings, posted at the Fulton County Courthouse where he and his fiancé, Alejandro Arriaga Ariza, went to…
On Feb. 14, Ms. Smith and Mr. Aspiazu returned to the park to marry. Ms. Smith, in a backless yellow chiffon gown under a winter white wrap, was escorted down a park walkway by Rahul; Mr. Aspiazu, wearing a dark suit with a yellow tie, awaited them with Mr. Jean-Louis, their officiant. Ms. Salvin, Ms.…
For Michelle Kayati and Lacy Hawkins, a low-key wedding was the plan all along. “This is not our first rodeo,” Ms. Kayati said, meaning that she and Mr. Hawkins were each previously married. Forgoing pageantry is one thing; slipping into a wedding dress you inexpertly stitched together yourself and finding your fiancé frantically chopping wood…
A close friend of Nicholas Rowe’s once told him, “You’re going to fall in love with the girl who shuts you up.” Chalk one up for that friend. “Everyone thinks I’m funny, but Jess has a lot of sass, and getting her to laugh was very much a challenge,” Mr. Rowe said. In 2016, Mr.…
A week before Nicole Saracino had surgery on her right ankle in May 2017, she logged onto her dating profile and clicked Stephen Hayman into her life. “He was a real gentleman, very polite and very caring,” said Ms. Saracino, 30, who works in the northern part of Queens in New York as a pharmacy…