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Vaccine protection waned this spring but boosters helped, the C.D.C. reports.
The emergence of highly contagious Omicron subvariants this spring in the United States appeared to reduce the protection offered by vaccines ...
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Sports
Figure Skating Federation Proposes Raising Minimum Age to Compete
How young is too young in the crucible of elite, international sports? Officials in figure skating — a sport plagued on the global stage by ...
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Health
Exploring the Health Effects of Ageism
Each fall, Becca Levy asks the students in her health and aging class at the Yale School of Public Health to picture an old person and share the ...
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Health
Omicron Was More Severe for Unvaccinated Children in 5-to-11 Age Group, Study Shows
Unvaccinated children from 5 to 11 years old were hospitalized with Covid at twice the rate of vaccinated children during the winter Omicron ...
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Sports
For the Yankees, a Day Finishes Better Than It Started
Opening day arrived in the Bronx on Friday, sunshine bathing the shimmering green lawn at Yankee Stadium. The Boston Red Sox might as well have ...
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World
Canada approves the Moderna vaccine for children ages 6 to 11.
Close to four months after Canada’s drug regulator greenlit the country’s first pediatric coronavirus vaccine, manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech ...
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Business
The Post Office Is Buying Gas-Powered Trucks, Despite Biden Climate Order
WASHINGTON — A senior House Democrat called on Wednesday for the resignation of Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general, saying he flouted President ...
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Health
Pfizer is expected to ask the F.D.A. to authorize its Covid vaccine for children under 5.
Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are expected as soon as Tuesday to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a coronavirus vaccine for ...
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Arts
‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’
Julian Fellowes chased his new series, “The Gilded Age,” for a decade. Call it his white whale. Beginning Monday on HBO, you can watch it drag ...
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Business
The Key to Marketing to Older People? Don’t Say ‘Old.’
According to company lore, the idea for Nike’s CruzrOne sneaker — a well-cushioned, thick-soled running shoe that debuted in 2019 — originated ...
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