Post-pandemic baby boom and fertility consults via Zoom: How COVID-19 is affecting pregnancy plansBoth planning for pregnancy and raising children can create stress for parents and parents-to-be during normal times, but taking on either of these roles during a pandemic can be even more taxing.Many couples looking to have children during the COVID-19 crisis are…
From skyscrapers in Manhattan to sleek campuses in Silicon Valley, offices across the country have been mostly empty for months."In some ways, this virus is a workplace virus, it's an office virus," said Amol Sarva, co-founder and CEO of Knotel, a company that designs and rents office space to major corporations internationally. "This is one…
As businesses contemplate the return of workers to their desks, many are considering large and small changes to the modern workplace culture and trappings.The offices of Infection Prevention at the University of California, Irvine, has translucent protective barriers between desks and now requires employees to wear masks.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesMay 4, 2020Updated…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…