By now, the Omicron wave of the coronavirus has crested in much of the United States. But the size of the wave, which broke records for national cases and hospitalizations, has given regulators and scientists an opportunity to better assess vaccine efficacy in children aged 6 months to 4 years old, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a…
PORTLAND, Ore. — It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl. Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would…
“Thirty-one percent is the highest it has ever been,” since the company started the tracking survey in March 2020, said Mr. Eylon. “It’s an early indication that the travelers are going through a change of mind-set.” This comes after domestic leisure travel had a strong year in 2021, rebounding well after extraordinary losses in 2020,…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her hospital crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants in the malnutrition ward. Her mother, Balqisa, had brought the child to Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, the night before. “Her body was so hot,” she said, stroking her daughter’s emaciated leg.…