Health

The company will ask federal regulators to increase the amount of coronavirus vaccine it can put in each vial by as much as 50 percent, potentially bolstering availability quickly. Moderna is asking United States regulators to approve what it says could be a remarkably simple proposal to speed up the …

More than 6,000 employees of the Transportation Security Administration have contracted the coronavirus. Workers say lax safety measures have contributed to the spread. Travel and travel planning are being disrupted by the worldwide spread of the coronavirus. For the latest updates, read The New York Times’s Covid-19 coverage here. As …

Los especialistas en enfermedades infecciosas afirman que vacunarse con la vacuna de Johnson & Johnson, cuya eficacia contra el virus es menor que la de otras vacunas, seguiría mereciendo la pena. A primera vista, los resultados reportados el viernes 29 de enero, después de una larga espera por la prueba …

People who have already been sick with Covid-19 should still be vaccinated, experts say, but they may experience intense side effects even after one dose. Shannon Romano, a molecular biologist, came down with Covid late last March, about a week after she and her colleagues shut down their lab at …

No matter where you live or how high your socioeconomic status, climate change can endanger your health, both physical and mental, now and in the future. Melting ice caps, warmer oceans, intense storms, heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires — all these well-documented effects of climate change may seem too …

On Jan. 5, Hank Aaron, the legendary home run hitter, posted on Twitter that he had been vaccinated for the coronavirus at the Morehouse School of Medicine, along with other prominent civil rights figures in Atlanta who were 75 or older and thus part of the group at the highest …

The scattered reports from around the country can play like a cruel irony: Someone tests positive for the coronavirus even though they have already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Notable examples It’s happened to at least three members of Congress recently: Adriano Espaillat, Democrat of New …

Our routines may have stalled during Covid, but the desire to divorce certainly hasn’t. Here, some of the pandemic-age challenges to consider. When the New York divorce courts reopened in June after a nearly three-month closure, the lawyer Nancy Chemtob said she began waking up at 3 a.m. to handle …

Creating an erasure poem means finding your voice lurking in another’s words. It can be a way to start writing when words fail. The past year has been difficult for many people. The pandemic, the politics, the job loss and the isolation — most Americans have had to find some …