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A new study suggests that coronavirus may be able to persist in male semen for a prolonged period of time. After testing 38 males at the Shanqui Municipal Hospital in China between January and February at the height of the countries infection rate, CNN reports that the journal JAMA Network Open cited that around 16 percent […]
An investigation has been launched after an off-duty cop body slammed a woman who wasn’t wearing a face mask at a Birmingham, Alabama-area Walmart, where the cop works as a security guard. The incident, which took place on Tuesday, was filmed on camera. The footage begins with the cop trying to detain and cuff the […]
Fresh off the birth of his and Grimes‘ new baby boy, tentatively named X Æ A-12, Elon Musk has made his return to Joe Rogan’s podcast for a two-hour interview that notably arrives a little less than two years after his previous weed-assisted appearance. From the jump, Rogan and Musk traded anecdotes about bringing new life […]
How would key characters from The Sopranos handle the COVID-19 era? Well, thanks to a new scene penned by creator David Chase, we now have an answer. “It’s the first time he’s written them since 2007, and he was nice enough to let us read that,” Steve Schirripa explained on a recent episode of his […]
In a new study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute suggest that the coronavirus began spreading between humans late last year. The report, which studied over 7,500 samples from a global database of patients with SARS-CoV-2, discovered a common ancestor among a large proportion of the genetic […]
Kevin Spacey has decided to compare the sexual assault allegations made against him and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The disgraced House of Cards actor, who came out as gay in 2017 after being accused of making a sexual advance toward actor Anthony Rapp when the latter was 14 years old, appeared on the Bits & Pretzels podcast to imply he related to […]
A medical researcher who was reportedly close to making important findings on the coronavirus has been found shot dead in a home just outside of Pittsburgh. NBC News reports that 37-year-old Bing Liu, who worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head and neck. Just an hour […]
The threat of blood clots developing in coronavirus patients has become a major concern among doctors around the world. Mitchell Levy, chief of pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine at the Warren Albert School of Medicine at Brown University, told Bloomberg that the clotting issue as it relates to COVID-19 is “probably the most important […]
A new study conducted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified a new strain of the coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than previous versions that spread during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles Times reports. Researchers found that this new strain, called D614G. could also make people more vulnerable […]
A few Wendy’s locations in California, South Carolina, and Kentucky have taken burgers off their menu as the fast food chain has started to feel the effects of the meat supply shortage due to the COVID-19 crisis, TODAY reports. It is an unfortunate yet ironic turn of events for Wendy’s, which became famous in the 1980s for originating the phrase, “Where’s the beef?” […]
