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Top White House officials pushed the CDC to minimize the dangers of COVID-19 for young people and pressured schools to reopen this summer. Two former CDC officials tell The New York Times that White House officials, like aides in Mike Pence’s office and Dr. Deborah Birx—the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force—were attempting […]
A Maryland man will go to jail for hosting parties that defied the governor’s COVID-19 safety guidelines. Police arrested 42-year-old Shawn Marshall Myers in March after he threw two functions in his home, each of which had 50 people present, NBC News reports. Back then, Gov. Larry Hogan had instituted an emergency order that limits […]
New York reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, marking the state’s highest single-day tally since early June. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the unsettling news on Friday when he revealed that out of the nearly 100,000 tests reported on Friday, 1,005 came back positive. That’s about a 1 percent positivity rate, which was slightly higher than […]
An Ohio woman was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after she refused to wear a face mask at a junior high football game. A video of the incident has since surfaced on social media, showing school resource officer Chris Smith attempting to handcuff the woman as she sat on the bleachers. The woman, identified as […]
It appears the coronavirus is mutating in the U.S. Researchers became aware of this mutation when Houston saw an influx of cases in June, where a form of COVID-19 that was found in other parts of the world and was known to be particularly contagious began to dominate the city’s confirmed cases. A new study covered […]
The global pandemic has made Halloween especially scary this year. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidelines on how to celebrate the holiday in a fun and safe manner. The CDC divided the suggestions into three categories: “lower risk activities,” “moderate risk activities,” and “higher risk activities.” The latter underscores the importance of social distancing, […]
The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon frivolously spent most of the $1 billion given to it by Congress on jet engine parts and body armor, even though the money was meant to address the need for medical supplies in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Defense Department was supplied with the large sum of taxpayer money through […]
Despite the fact that the U.S. will soon surpass 200,000 CDC-confirmed deaths from COVID-19, Trump would like his supporters to believe that it “affects virtually nobody.” The latest example of Trump intentionally sowing confusion amid the still-in-progress pandemic went down at another one of his health guidelines-ignoring campaign events, footage from which—as always—makes for a truly […]
Watching sports from home with few options to visit stadiums may be necessary to curb the pandemic, but one fan in the City of Champions wasn’t having it. On Sunday, a fan snuck into Fenway Park while the Boston Red Sox took on their arch-rivals, the New York Yankees. The man was somehow able to climb the Green […]
On Saturday, 2 Chainz participated in the “Feed Your City Challenge,” which had chosen Atlanta as the eighth stop for a nationwide tour bearing that same name. The philanthropic challenge was started by former NBA player Ricky Davis and music exec. Tony Draper as part of an effort to give groceries and personal protective equipment to underserved […]
