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As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
As we pointed out last month just as COVID-19 problems here in the States were starting to finally be taken with seriousness by a presumed majority, an under-discussed facet of the novel coronavirus‘ impact became strikingly clear, i.e. its very real effects on the sex work industry at large. Resourcefully, strip clubs in progressive-minded cities like Portland […]
The unemployment rate continues to hit stunning new heights. Another 3.8 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 25, NPR reports. Though that’s a decline from the prior week’s 4.4 million, a total of 30.3 million people have now filed for unemployment in the six weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began […]
A couple who had been together for 73 years died this week due after both being diagnosed with COVID-19. “Our family lost the glue that holds us together,” Natalie Lameka, the granddaughter of the couple—Mary and Wilford Kepler—told WTMJ TV. She added that the deaths were “definitely hard” but “bittersweet.” Wilford died on Saturday, followed six […]
30-year-old Rana Zoe Mungin fell victim to COVID-19 on Monday, after struggling to be seen for her symptoms. According to New York’s CW-affiliate, Mungin’s sister, Mia, is a registered nurse who says Mungin contracted the virus in mid-March. Mungin had asthma and hypertension, which put her at higher risk if she caught the coronavirus. But despite showing signs of COVID-19 like […]
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 […]
Dedrick D. Williams, one of XXXTentacion‘s murder suspects, has asked a judge to free him from jail on bond over COVID-19 concerns. TMZ published a report early Monday in which a letter from Williams to Michael A. Usan, a criminal division judge in the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Florida. In the letter, Williams —one of four […]
A new study from the Maryland Transportation Institute at the University of Maryland, Americans are starting to feel the effects of “quarantine fatigue,” and are venturing outside despite the stay-at-home orders issued by their respective states, The Washington Post reports. The study, which tracked over 100 million cellphones monthly, showed that on April 17, the average number […]
