After the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States considered immunizing the entire population to protect against a terrorist attack using smallpox. “In the end, it was decided no, because of the negative consequences of vaccinating lots of people,” Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “Vaccine side effects are…
What really is the prognosis for John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate nominee from Pennsylvania who had a stroke on May 13? The 52-year-old lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania clinched his party’s nomination just a few days later, setting up one of the most consequential Senate contests of the midterm elections. But urgent medical questions remain. He…
The virus can also spread by touching or sharing infected items like clothing and bedding, or by the respiratory droplets produced by sneezing or coughing, according to the W.H.O. That may sound eerily familiar because in the early days of the pandemic many experts said that the coronavirus also had little human-to-human transmission beyond respiratory…
In a live online Q&A, experts at the World Health Organization said that they expect cases of monkeypox to rise across the globe but that there is no evidence yet to suggest that it could spread like the coronavirus.
Kristine Gebbie, a health policy expert who served as the nation’s first AIDS czar in the early 1990s, died on May 17 in Adelaide, Australia. She was 78. The cause was cancer, her daughter Eileen Gebbie said. After serving as the chief health officer for the states of Oregon and Washington and as a member…
This weekend, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married for the third time, following a just-for-fun ceremony in Las Vegas with Elvis presiding and an intimate legal ceremony in Santa Barbara, Calif. But in every sense, this was the Big One — hosted at a castle in Portofino, Italy, and staged in front of a…
LOS ANGELES — The thing about endangered creatures is that by the time you notice they’re in trouble, it is probably too late to get them back. The same can probably be said of subcultures. Beautiful or colorful, anomalous and strange, largely unnoticed however distinct, members of subcultures consume, create, disport and express themselves in…
Angel’s Share, the influential Japanese-style speakeasy that closed in March after nearly 30 years in the same East Village space, will return for another flight this summer. The bar, considered a pioneer in the craft-cocktail movement, will stage a pop-up inside the Hotel Eventi, on the Avenue of the Americas near 30th Street, beginning June…
The Luke’s Lobster chain of Maine-style lobster roll and seafood spots has added a version of their roll fueled with Sichuan spice. It’s a collaboration between Luke’s Lobster and Omsom, a company started by Kim and Vanessa Pham, the daughters of Vietnamese immigrants, which makes and sells Asian sauce bases. Omsom’s “Chinese mala salad starter,”…
Leaving a commercial ice cream container on the table while serving can quickly lead to a sticky meltdown. A new insulated stainless steel ice cream keeper that holds a standard 14- to 16-ounce container is an effective new solution. With its screw top lid in place the ice cream maintains a fine scooping consistency for…