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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, who rose to household name status during the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced he plans to step down as Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden and as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The 81-year-old shared the news on Monday and confirmed he will exit both […]
Drake is postponing his anticipated Young Money Reunion event due to COVID-19. In a statement, Drake revealed he recently tested positive for COVID-19 and—due to this—he is going to reschedule the show with Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. “I am truly devastated to say that I tested positive for Covid and the Young Money Reunion […]
Joe Biden has once again tested positive for COVID-19. He confirmed the news via Twitter, writing, “Folks, today I tested positive for COVID again. This happens with a small minority of folks. I’ve got no symptoms but I am going to isolate for the safety of everyone around me. I’m still at work, and will […]
The World Health Organization has cautioned the public that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over yet, and a new variant is spreading rapidly in America. As CNN reported, the novel coronavirus has continued to spread and a new subvariant of Omicron, BA.5, has been detected. The strain was first detected in July 2022, and is believed […]
A rapper who boasted about committing unemployment fraud has agreed to a plea deal. According to the Department of Justice, 33-year-old Fontrell Antonio Baines, aka Nuke Bizzle, has confessed to illegally obtaining COVID relief funds in the summer of 2020. Baines is accused of bragging about the scheme in the music video for “EDD”—a reference to the Employment […]
Pfizer said Saturday its Omicron-adapted COVID-19 have shown a “high immune response” against the variant. In separate statements, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and BioNTech CEO Prof. Ugur Sahin both expressed excitement over the latest data, which they say bodes well for the pair of Omicron-adapted candidates. “Based on these data, we believe we have two very […]
Children as young as six months old can now receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The New York Times reports that the CDC recommends parents get their children immunized, with the vaccines available to this age group on Tuesday. Kids from six months through five years old can get Moderna, and kids from six months through four […]
The 65th Annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade returned to New York City on Sunday following a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, this year’s grand marshal, the nation’s largest demonstration of cultural pride expected 1.5 million spectators, and kicked off Sunday morning around 11 a.m. along the […]
Lil Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes Foundation is helping supply inmates in his home state with hand sanitizer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Durk’s organization teamed up with the Illinois Department of Corrections and the non-profit Chicago Votes to help supply the prisons with 29,000 bottles of hand sanitizer. “The pandemic has amplified issues that impact our incarcerated community members […]
Two new even more transmissible Omicron subvariants have been found in the United States, Deadline reports. First identified in South Africa, BA.4 and BA.5 were initially recorded on Jan. 10 and Feb. 26, respectively, but have only recently caused a dramatic spike in cases in their country of origin. Abdool Karim, public health expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, […]
