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Employees who work for Disney parks in Florida and California got some grim news this week when they learned from a memo that their employer (The Walt Disney Co.) was planning to lay off 28,000 people. This was attributed to the substantial COVID-19-induced attendance losses experienced by those tourist attractions, which is perhaps something you saw coming if […]
COVID-19 continues to become one of the world’s biggest medical mysteries as it claims the life of a seemingly healthy North Carolina teenager. Appalachian State University sophomore, Chad Dorrill, died on Monday after contracting COVID-19, The Charlotte Observer reports. His mother, Susan Dorrill, stated in a now-private Facebook post that her son didn’t exhibit any known symptoms […]
Another Karen had another meltdown and this time at a Subway location when asked to wear a mask. In the viral video, which was uploaded to Reddit this week, the male Sandwich Karen tells workers the health department will be “abolished” when he’s asked to wear a mask. “The health department’s over, don’t listen to them,” […]
Top White House officials pushed the CDC to minimize the dangers of COVID-19 for young people and pressured schools to reopen this summer. Two former CDC officials tell The New York Times that White House officials, like aides in Mike Pence’s office and Dr. Deborah Birx—the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force—were attempting […]
A Maryland man will go to jail for hosting parties that defied the governor’s COVID-19 safety guidelines. Police arrested 42-year-old Shawn Marshall Myers in March after he threw two functions in his home, each of which had 50 people present, NBC News reports. Back then, Gov. Larry Hogan had instituted an emergency order that limits […]
New York reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, marking the state’s highest single-day tally since early June. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the unsettling news on Friday when he revealed that out of the nearly 100,000 tests reported on Friday, 1,005 came back positive. That’s about a 1 percent positivity rate, which was slightly higher than […]
An Ohio woman was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after she refused to wear a face mask at a junior high football game. A video of the incident has since surfaced on social media, showing school resource officer Chris Smith attempting to handcuff the woman as she sat on the bleachers. The woman, identified as […]
It appears the coronavirus is mutating in the U.S. Researchers became aware of this mutation when Houston saw an influx of cases in June, where a form of COVID-19 that was found in other parts of the world and was known to be particularly contagious began to dominate the city’s confirmed cases. A new study covered […]
The global pandemic has made Halloween especially scary this year. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines on how to celebrate the holiday in a fun and safe manner. The CDC divided the suggestions into three categories: “lower risk activities,” “moderate risk activities,” and “higher risk activities.” The latter underscores the importance of social distancing, […]
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon frivolously spent most of the $1 billion given to it by Congress on jet engine parts and body armor, even though the money was meant to address the need for medical supplies in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Defense Department was supplied with the large sum of taxpayer money through […]
