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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 […]
As Donald Trump approaches his last days in the White House after losing the 2020 presidential election to former VP Joe Biden, a veritable smorgasbord of fourth-quarter concerns are receiving renewed public interest. Chief among these, of course, is how the current administration will handle (or mishandle) the litany of continued COVID-19 pandemic issues that 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 […]
A few of the children of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman have banded together to help create a makeshift school for kids in Mexico who didn’t have access to online classes, Daily Mail reports. Located in the Bicentennial Extension, just north of Culiacan, this plot of land was cleared out by three workers in […]
5 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus while on the first cruise ship to resume sailing in the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic, CNBC reports. Torbjorn Lund, captain of the SeaDream I, made the announcement of the first positive test on Wednesday through a ship wide address where he asked all 53 passengers […]
Four Seasons Total Landscaping—which, depending on who you ask, either sounds like a possible alternate name for Phoebe and Conor’s Better Oblivion Community Center or the title of a Fall Out Boy B-side—has resumed regular merch sales following a sellout spurred by one of the more uniquely bizarre facets of the 2020 election. In a message shared […]
Jeffrey Toobin has been fired from The New Yorker after a weeks-long investigation into the “Zoom dick incident.” “I was fired today by [The New Yorker] after 27 years as a staff writer,” the veteran journalist tweeted Wednesday. “I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work.” […]
Daily COVID-19 cases in the United States reached a record high on Wednesday when more than 140,000 new infections were reported. According to CNN, Wednesday also marked the ninth consecutive day the nation’s daily coronavirus count surpassed the 100,000 mark. The previous record was set on Tuesday, with the country reporting about 136,300 new positive cases. The Covid Tracking Project also reported 65,368 virus-related […]
Since the first Asian giant hornets appeared in the US, scientists have been working double-time to track them to their source and wipe them out. The so-called “murder hornets” are the largest species of hornet in the world and could wreak havoc on local ecosystems. After a few failed attempts to track captured hornets back […]
