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TV personality and frequent pseudoscience advocate Dr. Oz is back at it with a Fox News-presented argument about reopening schools in the US amid COVID-19. Schools, Oz said this week, represent what he believes is “a very appetizing opportunity.” From there, Oz referred to something he recently read in the somewhat controversial medical journal the […]
During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested there were 18 other coronaviruses before COVID-19. “This is COVID-19 not COVID-1, folks,” she said, implying that the World Health Organization did a bad job at warning the world about the virus. “You would think that people charged with the World […]
During his Tuesday press conference, Donald Trump announced that he would appoint the commissioners of several major sports leagues (and also some owners) to a group that would offer opinions on reopening the U.S. and getting the economy going again. Trump also stressed the importance of getting sports back up. “We have to get sports […]
In an “unprecedented” move, the Treasury Department has ordered the IRS to print Donald Trump‘s name on the coronavirus stimulus checks—marking the first time a president’s signature has appeared on an IRS disbursement. According to the The Washington Post, the last-minute decision was finalized Monday, as the government prepares to mail $1,200 paper checks to tens of million of Americans. The […]
During his Tuesday press conference, Donald Trump announced that he would appoint the commissioners of several major sports leagues (and also some owners) to a group that would offer opinions on reopening the U.S. and getting the economy going again. Trump also stressed the importance of getting sports back up. “We have to get sports […]
Following comments about the benefits of earlier COVID-19 containment efforts from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Trump took to his usual practice of ill-advised tweeting to defend the current White House administration. In one tweeted action that’s now the subject of a swath of headlines, Trump shared […]
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: Stop hawking products that are falsely advertised as coronavirus treatments. In a letter dated April 9, the agency cited a number of examples where the InfoWars founder made unproven claims about products sold on his website; these included the Super Silver Toothpaste, the Superblue Silver […]
Italy is currently dealing with a countrywide lockdown due to the coronavirus, and the Mafia is helping out the country’s residents in need. The Guardian reports that videos of known Mafia gang members delivering food and other essential goods have surfaced online over the past few weeks. They reportedly brought the goods to some of the […]
A week before declaring a national emergency, Donald Trump described the coronavirus outbreak as a “problem” that no one saw coming. He would go on to blame China for allegedly spreading misinformation and covering up the severity of the disease, suggesting Chinese officials were to blame for the U.S.’s lack of preparedness. “It could have been stopped in its […]
A new poll shows that a majority of Americans now believe the federal government has done a poor job with regards to halting the prevention of COVID-19 spread. The CNN poll, conducted by SSRS, found that 55 percent of Americans would agree that the government hasn’t made a good effort at spread prevention, marking an […]
