BATON ROUGE, La — Flossie West was not at all interested in taking the coronavirus vaccine. Carla Brown, the nurse overseeing her care, was determined to change her mind. Ms. West, 73, has ovarian cancer, congestive heart failure and breathing difficulties — conditions that place her at grave risk should she contract the virus. As…
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HONG KONG — Of all the problems created by the pandemic, Sisi Wong did not expect that finding parking would be one of them. Travel to Hong Kong was cut off. Residents were urged to stay home. And besides, Ms. Wong lived in a remote northern pocket of the territory, where rolling hills outnumbered skyscrapers…
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Divorce can be deeply emotional for everyone involved, especially the children who have to so quickly adapt. Natalie Muñoz, a 15-year-old high school sophomore and the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, compares processing her parents’ split with going through the stages of grief. Over time, she learned to cope with her new normal,…
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Last year very few brides walked down the aisle as planned. According to wedding planning app, Bridebook.com, an estimated 15 million weddings around the world were postponed because of the pandemic. In the United Kingdom, where weddings have been banned or restricted since last spring, many brides simply decided to embrace smaller, more intimate ceremonies…
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Like so many others, he worked remotely, taking calls about film projects 9 to 5. Other than that, it’s been lots of streaming (“The Office,” “The Larry Sanders Show”), lots of pot and lots of tweeting. Mr. Rogen began to trend on Twitter when he squared off in a much-publicized flame war with Senator Ted…
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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. When Anna Majani stepped into her family’s factory in Bologna, Italy, to begin work among the cocoa toasters, marble tables and molds for chocolates eaten by kings and poets, nobody took her seriously. It was…
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The initial insights from the study, aptly named DESIRE (Developing and Evaluating Short-acting Innovations for Rectal Use), are being reported on March 6 in a Science Spotlight session at the virtual meeting of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), March 6-10. The presentation will be available for registered participants and media to view…
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Even as officials in Texas and Mississippi lifted statewide mask mandates, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday offered fresh evidence of the importance of face coverings, reporting that mask-wearing mandates were linked to fewer infections with the coronavirus and Covid-19 deaths in counties across the United States. Federal researchers also…
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STEPHANE DE SAKUTINGetty Images Dior will debut its fall-winter 2021 collection live on March 8 at 8:30 a.m. EST. We’re all watching from home this year, so consider this your digital front row seat. This content is imported from Third party. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you…
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Courtesy of Prada The unpredictability of this year’s fashion month marks another season of designers adapting to the challenges of virtual presentations, but their collections are nothing short of creativity. Designers found new ways to reimagine the future of footwear, where both functionality and innovation happily coexist. From Ambush’s textured slides at to sequined boots…
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