When the schools in Marietta, Ga., opened their doors on Aug. 3, the highly contagious Delta variant was sweeping across the South, and children were not being spared. By Aug. 20, 51 students in the city’s small school district had tested positive for the coronavirus. Nearly 1,000 others had been flagged as close contacts and…
If it were easier to connect with doctors regularly, many of the hesitant might change their minds, she said. “They are left to themselves and what someone may have told them that may not be reliable information,” Ms. Turner-Ford said. “If you don’t have that existing relationship with a practitioner, someone in that instance may…
Al final, lo que me aburrió fue obsesionarme con mi vecino, intentar salir a cenar con alguien que cree que hacer reservaciones es “limitante” y ver cómo mis amigos dejaban de prestarme atención cada vez que me quejaba, por enésima vez, de que me hubiera cancelado una cita. Dejé de mantener la luz encendida toda…
After three days in orbit, a physician assistant, a community college professor, a data engineer and the billionaire who financed their trip arrived back on Earth, heralding a new era of space travel with a dramatic and successful Saturday evening landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission, which is known as Inspiration4, splashed down off…
The extremely transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus, which overtook all other variants in the United States just a few months ago, now represents more than 99 percent of cases tracked in the country, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The variant caused caseloads to surge in Britain and…
When astronauts return to Earth from space, they can experience a number of health and physical issues after they land — a result of living without gravity. For flights that go as long as six months, astronauts can experience difficulties with balance, muscle weakness and cardiovascular deconditioning, according to NASA. Although the Inspiration4 flight was…
“One thing is clear is that he loves it,” Mr. Probst’s friend, the director Tyler Perry, wrote in an email. “Just look at him sitting there in the rain at tribal council. He ain’t no diva. That’s the love of the game.” Authenticity, “Survivor” fans have come to know, means warts and all. It means…
Lanson Jones did not think that the coronavirus would come for him. An avid tennis player in Houston who had not caught so much as a cold during the pandemic, he had refused a vaccine because he worried that it would spoil his streak of good health. But contracting Covid shattered his faith in his…
Name: Emmanuel Olunkwa Age: 27 Hometown: Los Angeles Now Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Mr. Olunkwa is a filmmaker, independent magazine editor and furniture designer who was just named the new editor of Pin-Up magazine. He views his cross-disciplinary practice as keeping with the mantra…
Before Juhi Singh, 46, who owns a high-end wellness center on the Upper East Side, jetted off to the Amalfi Coast last month, she packed her bathing suits and left her 10-year-old son with his grandmother. Her personal driver also took her to Sollis Healthcare, a concierge medical service in Manhattan, to measure her antibodies…