Maxwell Quested Wolkin thought he had found a fellow baseball fan when he noticed Olivia Ida Russin was wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers jacket in a photo on her OkCupid profile. But after they connected on the dating website in May 2014, he learned, to his dismay, that she was more a fan of the jacket…
Christopher Michael Kirchhoff let his experience working with high-level military officials guide him when he started online dating in 2019. “I approached it sort of like military planning,” said Dr. Kirchhoff, who was a director for strategic planning at the National Security Council during the Obama administration and holds a Ph.D. in social and political…
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A case of polio has been identified in an unvaccinated adult man in Rockland County, officials said. The New York State Department of Health and its Rockland County counterpart confirmed that the infection was transmitted from someone who received the oral polio vaccine, which has not been administered in the United States since 2000. Officials…
ROME — Customers in the Rome bookstore paid no attention to the circular stickers on the floor instructing them to stamp out Covid by maintaining “a distance of at least 1 meter.” “These are things from the past,” said Silvia Giuliano, 45, who wore no mask as she browsed paperbacks. She described the red signs,…
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Casting the right actor for a role often means finding someone who matches the character description in a script, but Josh Sundquist didn’t know if that was possible for his series “Best Foot Forward.” “It sounds silly in retrospect, but this was four years ago,” Sundquist recalled recently. “At the time, it simply didn’t occur…
President Biden’s coronavirus infection is a stark illustration that the Covid vaccines, powerful as they are, are far from the bulletproof shields that scientists once hoped for. Mr. Biden has received multiple doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; his most recent shot, a second booster, was on March 30. Studies suggest that those doses will provide…
President Biden is 79, and Americans his age and older have made up larger and larger shares of those dying from Covid in recent months. The virus has taken advantage of falling immunity caused by the time elapsed since many older people’s last vaccinations, and the Omicron variant has evolved a growing ability to skirt…
When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of his favored subscription publications on his home office desk: Time, Life, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Mad magazine. To me, Time and Life pegged him an engaged citizen; JAMA, as a conscientious professional. But…