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Two Long Island nurses have been arrested for falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records, CNBC reports. The nurses, who are 49-year-old Julie DeVuono and 44-year-old Marissa Urraro, are being charged with one count of forgery in the second degree. DeVuono is the owner and operator of Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville, and she’s also being charged with a […]
Ahead of his upcoming Bad Reputation tour, Kid Rock is assuring his fans that he won’t perform at any venues that have COVID-19 restrictions in place. In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, the 51-year-old singer threatened to cancel shows on his upcoming tour should venues require concertgoers to wear masks or show proof of vaccination. “There’s […]
Evangeline Lilly, best known for her roles as Kate on Lost and Wasp in Ant-Man, has made a public statement against vaccine mandates. The actress shared a multi-photo post to Instagram on Thursday, complete with a lengthy caption in which she revealed that she was in Washington D.C. this weekend to (in her words) “support bodily sovereignty […]
A 31-year-old Boston man named DJ Ferguson will go without a heart transplant because he refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Per CBS News, the city’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital insists Ferguson get vaccinated if he wants the surgery performed. “Like many other transplant programs in the United States—the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several vaccines and lifestyle […]
As the United States continues to grapple with COVID-19, health officials around the world are keeping their eyes on BA. 2—an omicron subvariant that has been found in several countries across the world. The World Health Organization announced this week that it continues to investigate the mutations of BA. 2, which is widely known as the “son of omicron.” […]
A California man who was recently seen in footage wearing a t-shirt that reads “Your mask makes you look stupid” while yelling nonsensically is alleged to have harassed masked children, including by coughing on them. While the footage that initially achieved traction after popping up on Reddit shows the man shouting out variations of typical […]
Neil Young wants all of his music removed from Spotify immediately and explained why in a since-deleted open letter posted to his website. According to the letter cited by Rolling Stone, the musician wishes to have the rest of his music removed from the streamer because he believes they are “spreading fake information about vaccines.” Young blames the spread […]
Gonzaga has suspended the season tickets of its most famous alum due to his failure to follow the school’s arena mask mandate. NBA legend John Stockton, who played point guard for the Bulldogs from 1980 to 1984, revealed in an interview with The Spokesman-Review that the university suspended his season tickets due to his refusal to wear at mask […]
Orlando’s top health official was suspended this month after he slammed his staff’s “pathetic” vaccination rate and urged them to get the jab. The New York Times reports the suspension stems from a Jan. 4 email in which Dr. Raul Pino—director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County—expressed concern over the number of staffers who had yet to be fully […]
The White House will distribute hundreds of millions of free N95 masks, marking the implementation of something that most certainly should have occurred much earlier in the (still ongoing) pandemic. “This is the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history,” a White House official was quoted as saying in a report from Reuters […]
