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The University of Oxford announced a promising step forward in the global race to create a coronavirus vaccine. According to The New York Times, scientists at the university administered a vaccine to six monkeys, all of whom have reportedly been COVID-19-free for 28 days, after being exposed to “heavy quantities” of the virus. It’s a hopeful sign for the vaccine, […]
Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren said that compliance to stay-at-home orders is “starting to look a whole lot like willful slavery” in a tweet that has since been deleted. Lahren posted a series of tweets expressing her support toward the minuscule anti-lockdown demonstrations that have cropped up in states like Michigan, Ohio, and North Carolina, among others. […]
Instead of going the delayed theatrical release route that’s permeated headlines amid the COVID-19 era for other major studio productions, hotly anticipated new movies from Seth Rogen and Pete Davidson will instead take the arguably wiser approach of heading straight to your home. First up is Rogen’s An American Pickle, the story for which sounds […]
On Monday, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, announced he’d be letting the state’s stay-at-home order come to end at the conclusion of April, when it was originally set to expire. This will set into motion a multi-phase plan to reopen the state’s businesses, beginning on Friday (see: May 1). The first businesses to re-open […]
Donald Trump stood at the podium during a White House briefing this past Thursday, and suggested that the American people should be injected with disinfectant in an effort to kill COVID-19. What was more perplexing about Trump’s tone-deaf suggestion was that he allowed those remarks to linger for hours before claiming that he was only being sarcastic. […]
Erica Telfair, the mother of former NBA player Sebastian Telfair, has died after she contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, the New York Post reports. She was 64. Just weeks before the passing of his mother, Dan Telfair, Sebastian’s older brother died from the disease on March 28, according to the outlet. Dwayne “Tiny” Morton, the former head coach […]
The owner of the building in which a Chicago house party with an estimated attendance of 1,000+ took place this past weekend is going to get hit with fines, due to that rager’s complete disregard for social distancing guidelines. According to TMZ, city officials will levy fines against the property’s owner, and also cite her […]
After reversing course on the initial plan to reopen his two Atlanta-based restaurants on Monday, 2 Chainz decided his time today would be better spent distributing free meals to the homeless. Chainz took to Instagram to share a video of himself standing outside of his own Escobar Restaurant as people waited in line, standing at least […]
The Los Angeles Lakers are giving back the roughly $4.6 million they got from the federal government, which was money that was granted to the organization as part of a program aimed at keeping small businesses going throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. If that sentence made you say “wait, what?” then you’ve correctly identified the reason […]
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine have made a donation in support of Compton residents for the purpose of providing aid during the ongoing pandemic. This donation will help cover medical testing, supplies, and free meals. The Press-Telegram reports that their money will give out 145,000 such meals to residents, and will also pay for coronavirus […]
