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A Decline Among Seniors: Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of Covid vaccinations.Updated Boosters for Kids: The Food and Drug Administration broadened access to updated Covid booster shots to include children as young as 5.

In the New York metro area, the company’s average number of new subscribers each day in May was four and a half times higher than in February. Nashville and Phoenix saw large increases in entirely new subscribers, and growth has also come from smaller cities where the company had not done as much business, like Chapel Hill, N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn. Traditional rental hubs in the South such as Texas, Florida and Georgia were the first to show signs of recovery this year, though they are not yet back to 2019 subscriber counts, she added. Since a pandemic low last May, there has been a 92 percent increase in active subscribers - lured in part by recent discounts - and the number of customers was on track to outpace 2019 levels by the end of the year. Rent the Runway’s chief executive, Jennifer Hyman, said this month that users had been returning to the service in droves. And clothing rental platforms such as Rent the Runway say they are reaping the benefits after a perilous year of layoffs and slashing budgets. Maxx and Macy’s have reported a surge in apparel sales. Yet in recent weeks - and particularly in parts of the country where life is edging back toward normalcy - there is a post-pandemic ebullience emerging in how Americans are dressing. It’s been more than a year since the coronavirus brought events and socializing to a screeching halt, prompting much of the United States to settle into sweatpants and stay indoors for months on end.
