Here’s what you need to know: ImageA passenger in medical scrubs on an empty subway car in New York on Thursday.Credit…Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times New federal projections show a spike in infections if shelter-in-place orders are lifted at 30 days. Stay-at-home orders, school closures and social distancing greatly reduce infections of the…
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[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] Over the past few weeks, the world has begun to look dramatically different. Many people are still adjusting to restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, separating the things they want from…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageBurying a coronavirus victim in São Paulo, Brazil, on Tuesday.Credit…Victor Moriyama for The New York Times Global deaths cross 100,000, a devastating toll, as cases surge past 1.6 million. The number of deaths linked to the coronavirus worldwide has passed 100,000 as known infections surged past 1.6 million, according…
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The politics of the coronavirus have made it seem indecent to talk about the future. As President Trump has flirted with reopening America quickly — saying in late March that he’d like to see “packed churches” on Easter and returning to the theme days ago with “we cannot let this continue” — public-health experts have…
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Welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. This newsletter is dedicated to recipes that are easy, quick and satisfying, words that all have a different meaning today than they did when we first started. I spent a few hours this week cleaning out my freezer and — compared with the other things on my to-do list, like…
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More of us are making and watching sexual performances online now. Fewer of us are paying. April 10, 2020 Cam Models Practice Sexual Distancing I live in a sex-positive house, but there’s something about, like, when you have to have constant dialogue with people that’s very, like, very frank and vulgar for hours. It’s kind…
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For the past three weeks, Justin LaBoy, 28, a former professional basketball player and a social media personality, and Justin Dior Combs, 26 and an entrepreneur and P. Diddy’s 26-year-old son, have been hosting virtual pop-up strip clubs on Instagram Live. “If it wasn’t for Justin and his Lives I don’t know what I would…
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OAKLAND, Calif. — In one of the most far-ranging attempts to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Apple and Google said they were building software into smartphones that would tell people if they were recently in contact with someone who was infected with the virus. The technology giants said they were teaming up to release…
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When Dr. Deborah Birx delivers indispensable information on the federal government’s response to the pandemic, she does it in Hermès. The doctor is one of two women on the White House task force trying to slow the spread of an outbreak that, at the time of publication, has claimed more than 17,800 American lives. And…
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When will life return to normal, or at least a new normal? A major answer to the question of when — and how — Americans can return to public places like work and school could depend on something called an antibody test, a blood test that determines whether someone has ever been infected with the…
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