Dr. Hopkins consults weekly with wastewater screeners to determine where the city should funnel resources. When officials from the Houston program noticed that the sewage in one ZIP code, a largely Hispanic neighborhood, had unusually high levels of the virus week after week, they distributed testing and cleaning supplies and multilingual educational materials about the…
Welcome. I keep forgetting how I know things. With so much of life transpiring through screens — Zoom calls, group texts, long articles saved to read later, Netflix series half-paid-attention-to while scrolling through Instagram — I’ll find myself recalling a fact or a story, unable to identify the source of the information. Did this dimly…
Since people who try suicide have a higher likelihood of making another attempt in the next six months compared with the general population, the barriers to treatment are particularly troubling, he said. “That is our idea of hope,” he said. “That is the goal of the medical structure. We want to provide health care to…
SYDNEY, Australia — A cleanup and evacuation operation has begun in Tonga, where the island nation’s government, after days of silence, said Tuesday night that an epic volcanic eruption and the tsunami and ash clouds that followed were an “unprecedented disaster.” International efforts to deliver aid have been complicated not just by the ash and…
Yousra Attia In a perfect world, we’d snap our fingers and the perfect bra would be there at our fingertips. While that illusion feels best saved for our dreams, shopping for bras in this day and age is easier than years prior. With some companies specializing in creating lingerie for a certain clientele, for small…
“I think of it like an alarm — like a smoke detector — a good alarm isn’t silenced all the time,” Dr. Gillihan added. Accepting anxiety can help you face your fears. If you find yourself overestimating the risk of something terrible happening, start by acknowledging your anxiety and looking at it objectively, said Joel…
Experts also caution against trying to get infected on purpose as a way to gain hybrid immunity. “I really worry that people will intentionally get infected so they can get to this ‘new normal’,” said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center. The virus is unpredictable, and even young people can…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. What you need to know about André Leon Talley is that he contained multitudes. He was as comfortable front row at a couture show as he was on the couch at Watch What Happens Live, as at home in the white-hot…
For many of us, getting a home-cooked dinner on the table after a long day is a tiny miracle, so choosing a dish that doesn’t require a lot of clean-up is especially important. These 11 one-pot (or -pan) chicken dishes are here to save you from the sink. Full disclosure: Some of these recipes require…
Good morning. The theory of pizza cognition tells us that an individual’s first and primary source of pizza — say, Joe and Pat’s on Staten Island in New York; the California Pizza Kitchen in Alpharetta, Ga.; the frozen aisle at Vons in California; a House of Pizza in Massachusetts; the No Name Pub in the…