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A Michigan school teacher made the responsible decision to quarantine herself in her airplane’s bathroom when she tested positive for COVID-19 mid-flight. Marisa Fotieo spent five hours in that bathroom after taking the rapid test when her throat started feeling sore, according to Today. There were about 150 people on her flight, traveling from Chicago to […]
Johnson & Johnson has announced preliminary results from a study showing that a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine boasts 85 percent effectiveness against hospitalization. On Thursday, the company said that newly revealed preliminary results from a South African Phase 3b study showed that a homologues (i.e. the same vaccine) booster dose also reduced COVID-spurred hospitalization risk […]
Nearly two weeks after the Brooklyn Nets announced plans to welcome back Kyrie Irving as a part-time player for games outside of New York, the polarizing point guard returned to practice on Wednesday. Addressing the media for the first time since September, Kyrie told reporters he understood the organization’s decision to keep him sidelined due […]
Italian anti-vaccine and COVID-19 skeptic radio personality Maurizio Buratti has died from the novel coronavirus after boasting about his maskless escapades. Per the Daily Beast, Buratti, who called himself a “plague spreader,” was hospitalized earlier this month, and died following COVID-19 health complications on Monday, Dec. 27. The controversial radio personality, who also goes by the […]
HBO is teaming up with Succession’s executive producer Adam McKay to bring to life a limited series about the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine. The First Shots series will be based on the book The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell. The award-winning journalist based the […]
Requiring vaccines for domestic air travel is something that should be made the subject of serious consideration, per President Biden’s chief medical advisor. During an MSNBC interview on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci—Biden’s medical advisor and the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—was asked about having previously signaled his support for implementing […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shortened the recommended isolation time for those with COVID-19—as well as people who have come into close contacts with those who’ve tested positive—from 10 days to 5 days. The change—which Dr. Anthony Fauci previously said was “under consideration”—comes as officials say evidence points to people being most infectious in the two […]
A North Carolina police chief is being reprimanded after it was discovered that he allegedly told his officers how they could obtain fake COVID-19 vaccination cards. USA Today reports that Oakboro Police Chief TJ Smith informed members of his force about a “clinic” where they could go if they weren’t vaccinated. He’s now been put […]
Delta, United, and other U.S. airlines canceled more than 500 Christmas Eve flights as a surge in COVID-19 cases impacts their staff. According to flight tracking site FlightAware, as of midday Friday United has canceled 175 flights for Christmas Eve and 69 on Saturday. Delta dropped 145 flights on Friday and 111 for Christmas Day. Additionally, JetBlue […]
Marking the implementation of something that should have been carried out much sooner, at least immediately upon the former VP taking office, the Biden administration said Tuesday that it would distribute half a billion at-home COVID-19 tests amid Omicron variant concerns. In a statement shared early Tuesday morning ahead of a planned address to the […]
