Health
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When Restaurants Are Closed on Mondays
Welcome to Where to Eat, the new newsletter about restaurants for The New York Times, with my recommendations! Chances are…
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Alcohol-Related Deaths Spiked During the Pandemic, a Study Shows
Almost a million people in the United States have died of Covid-19 in the past two years, but the full…
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High Death Rate in Hong Kong Shows Importance of Vaccinating the Elderly
The first time the Omicron variant breached Hong Kong’s coronavirus defenses, in late 2021, the city stamped it out, cementing…
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10 Grapes Worth Knowing Better
A few weeks ago I opened a bottle that caught my attention. It was a soulful, graceful, strikingly pure red…
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‘He Goes Where the Fire Is’: A Virus Hunter in the Wuhan Market
As soon as Edward Holmes saw the dark-ringed eyes of the raccoon dogs staring at him through the bars of…
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Fauci predicts an uptick in U.S. cases, saying it is not yet time to ‘declare victory.’
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on the pandemic, predicted on Sunday an “uptick” in coronavirus infections…
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Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?
Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and…
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Shrugs Over Flu Signal Future Attitudes About Covid
When Dr. Arnold Monto, a public health researcher at the University of Michigan, lectures about influenza, he starts by saying:…
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One Pizza at a Time, He Defined the New York Slice
I first saw Domenico DeMarco in action more than 20 years ago, although if you ever saw him at work…
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Behind the Entenmann’s Cellophane, a Slice of Long Island Life
The tasty crumb of a detail appeared in news accounts last week about the death of Charles E. Entenmann, whose…