Desde el principio de la pandemia, los médicos han descubierto que la gente que experimenta casos graves de COVID-19 a menudo tiene problemas renales y no solo el daño pulmonar característico de esta enfermedad. Ahora, un estudio muy grande señala que, después de que los pacientes se recuperan de la infección inicial, los problemas renales…
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My employer doesn’t require masks in the office, and most people don’t wear them — even in meeting rooms where social distancing is impossible. Still, I wear a mask, and I’d feel better if my colleagues did too. We returned to the office in June, before the Delta variant became widespread in my state and…
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You know something has changed when the biggest celebrity at a fashion show is not Gina Gershon or Nicky Hilton or “Riverdale’s” Madelaine Petsch but Kathy Hochul, the new governor of New York. Yet on Wednesday, as the first New York Fashion Week since February 2020 began and Ms. Hochul took her place front row…
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Asking wedding guests to leave their children at home used to be among the thornier requests a couple could make. Now, Covid precautions are adding more-sensitive appeals to wedding invitations. Tucked inside embossed envelopes that include dinner choices and directions to the reception, are also politely worded notes telling guests they must be vaccinated, get…
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In addition to the infrastructure challenges of American airports are problems inherent in the dominant hub-and-spoke model, where passengers coming from smaller airports connect to their final destination via hubs like Atlanta, Chicago or Denver. Bad weather then ripples throughout the system, causing hundreds or thousands of delayed or canceled flights. Although this model sprung…
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Some Foremothers, and Fathers In the beginning, American fashion was largely defined by what it wasn’t: European. As Elizabeth Hawes, a sketcher turned journalist turned designer who went to Paris in the 1920s as a “copyist” — a patternmaker hired to copy French designs to be sold in the American market — wrote in her…
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While some folks have sprinted out of lockdown keen to make up for lost time, a number of men have, er, shuffled back onto the streets. They are ambling, dawdling and slouching to lunches, drinks and work meetings, powered by insouciance rather than haste. They are on mule time. Their feet are shod in clogs,…
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Welcome. I pruned the trailing jade plant yesterday, made a noodle kugel for Rosh Hashana and rode my bike into Manhattan for dinner. That was my logbook entry for Sept. 7, 2021. Nothing fancy, no editorializing or reflection, just a record of a few things I did. I log my day whenever I remember to…
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WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials have told the White House to scale back a plan to offer coronavirus booster shots to the general public this month, saying that regulators need more time to collect and review all the necessary data, according to people familiar with the discussion. Dr. Janet Woodcock, the acting commissioner of…
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The defendant, wearing a gray suit, sat quietly at a table surrounded by lawyers, her expression hidden behind a blue medical mask. Occasionally, she looked around. Her boyfriend and family members sat, also masked, in the packed gallery of Courtroom 4. A low roaring undercurrent of clacking laptop keyboards began as…
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