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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that the city will close public schools in order to combat the rising COVID-19 numbers. The Associated Press reports that all school buildings will be closed for in-person learning “until further notice.” All students will be taught online only for the time being, although as […]
More than a third of the attendees of a recent wedding in Ohio have now tested positive for COVID-19. And though it’s not technically measurable using current science, it’s safe to assume all attendees of the “superspreader” throwdown have long been infected with another comparably dangerous disease: stupidity. Ohio, of course, is one of the multiple […]
Pfizer, clearly not in the business of fucking around, said on Wednesday that the plan is now to submit a request to the FDA “within days” for an Emergency Use Authorization of its mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate BNT162b2. The vaccine candidate, developed in collaboration with BioNTech, was reported earlier this month to have shown to have an efficacy rate […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that the country’s first at-home COVID-19 self-testing kit has been approved by the agency. Results from said kit arrives in around 30 minutes, the FDA said in a statement posted to their website. “In 30 minutes or less, the results can be read directly from the test unit’s light-up […]
According to TMZ, Harvey Weinstein has been put in isolation after coming down with a 101-degree fever that doctors believe is a result of him catching the coronavirus. Citing “law enforcement sources,” TMZ adds that Weinstein is “doing poorly.” The incarcerated ex-producer received a test on Tuesday morning, though health officials are still waiting on the results for that. […]
On Saturday night, the New York City Sheriff’s Department busted a large indoor gathering that, according to officials, had more than 200 people packed inside a building for an event going by the moniker “Rumble in the Bronx.” This event was, according to authorities, part of an illegal fight club. As a result, 10 organizers have […]
Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slammed the “Democrat tyrannical control” in Washington, D.C., for apparently forcing her to work out in her hotel room. Greene took to Twitter, where she shared a video of her exercise regimen on Friday. She claimed that gyms and small businesses had been shuttered in D.C.: “I work out everyday in a […]
2 Chainz is celebrating the release of his new album So Help Me God with an outdoor parking lot concert. Produced by the Parking Lot Concert series, the show is taking place at the Gateway Center in College Park, Georgia, which is south of Atlanta. The Parking Lot Concerts have hosted some big names over […]
After questioning the reliability of COVID-19 testing, Elon Musk says he likely has a “moderate” case of the novel disease. The Tesla/SpaceX CEO made the admission via Twitter on Saturday night when he was asked about the symptoms he’s been experiencing over the last couple of days. Musk began by claiming he was still “getting wildly different results from different labs,” but […]
Normally, 50 Cent‘s Instagram is home to trolls and jokes. But on Saturday, he decided to remind us that the pandemic is still gripping the nation after revealing that R&B star Jeremih is currently battling COVID-19. “pray for my boy @jeremih he’s not doing good this covid shit is real,” 50 captioned a picture of himself and […]
