A man who had traveled to Canada has been diagnosed with the monkeypox virus, a rare and potentially fatal disease, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reported on Wednesday. This is the first report of monkeypox this year in the United States. Officials in Texas and Maryland recorded one case each last year. But the…
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There was a great deal of champagne spilled. It spilled from open bottles, poured by tuxedoed waiters into pyramids of oversize coupes. It spilled into the mouths of celebrities like Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes and Allen Leech as they gathered at Tavern on the Green on Sunday to celebrate the film “Downton Abbey: A New…
More than three-quarters of Americans diagnosed with long Covid were not sick enough to be hospitalized for their initial infection, a new analysis of tens of thousands of private insurance claims reported on Wednesday. The researchers analyzed data from the first few months after doctors began using a special diagnostic code for the condition that…
René Redzepi, the chef and co-owner of the Copenhagen restaurant Noma, has tested positive for Covid and will not appear at the restaurant’s weeklong dinner series in Brooklyn, American Express wrote in an email to attendees on Monday. As a result, American Express said it would refund the price of the dinner — $700 a…
Getting dressed for work during the summer is not the easiest thing to do. You want to wear something that’s going to keep you cool during your commute, warm in your freezing office, and take you from your desk to al fresco drinks—all while sticking to an office dress code. That’s a tall order. Consider…
Getty Images; Sanders: Damian Dovarganes/AP Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. John Elward drives a UPS truck and has been a Teamster for 18 years. He’s also a burgeoning fashion influencer of sorts. On his Twitter account @UnionDrip, Elward has been chronicling the style highlights of labor…
When Ninja Thyberg, the screenwriter and director of the porn industry drama “Pleasure,” was a teenager, everything about pornography ticked her off. “Women were these sex dolls used to satisfy men,” she told me, sitting beside her star, Sofia Kappel, in an apartment in Chinatown in Manhattan. In the early 2000s, in her native Sweden,…
“It’s a really dangerous distraction because it diverts our attention away from analyzing what we could do that is much more meaningful,” said Kate Ervine, an associate professor of global development studies at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. While individual activities do have environmental costs, and flying is one of the costliest, climate…
As the coronavirus morphs into a stubborn and unpredictable facet of everyday life, scientists and federal health officials are converging on a new strategy for immunizing Americans: a vaccination campaign this fall, perhaps with doses that are finely tuned to combat the version of the virus expected to be in circulation. The plan would borrow…