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While speaking to Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that older people are ready to risk their lives so that the American economy can get back to business as usual after being heavily impacted by the spread of COVID-19. “No one reached out to me and said, as a senior citizen, are you […]
On Monday, a judge dismissed a lawsuit against Ava DuVernay and Netflix over a scene from the Central Park jogger case-based miniseries When They See Us. That series was created and directed by DuVernay, and aired on that particular streaming platform in May 2019. The suit which was dismissed on Monday was actually filed in […]
An Arizona man has died after taking the medication that Donald Trump had publicly declared as a possible treatment for COVID-19, Banner Health reports. His wife is currently in critical condition. The couple is in their 60s. The couple ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive that’s commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, became sick within 30 minutes, and were rushed to […]
Doctors have indicated that the list of screening tools for the COVID-19 coronavirus could be expanded to include the loss of sense of smell and taste. CNN reports that symptoms of anosmia, which is a lack of sense of smell, and dysgeusia, a lack of taste, could very well be symptoms of the virus. As a result, […]
As COVID-19 containment efforts continue worldwide, more and more people are rightfully starting to draw attention to a facet of this era that’s been previously overlooked in mainstream news’ wall-to-wall coverage of the virus. But in a New York Times piece published Monday, that issue—namely the safety fears of Chinese-Americans—takes precedence. “I feel like I’m […]
According to a report from Reuters, a key American public health position was eliminated by the Trump administration several months prior to the current coronavirus pandemic. That position, embedded in Beijing, had sought to try and detect disease outbreaks from China. The person who had held that position, Dr. Linda Quick, left her post in […]
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard believes that the coronavirus pandemic could cause the U.S. unemployment rate to balloon to upwards of 30 percent in the second quarter, Bloomberg reports. In the face of such an alarming assessment, Bullard tried to strike a slightly more hopeful tone when discussing how the Federal Reserve is still searching for […]
Harvey Weinstein has reportedly tested positive for coronavirus. According to the Niagara-Gazette, Weinstein is currently in isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo as a precaution. New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision declined to confirm that Weinstein caught the virus, due to federal health-care privacy laws, but they did confirm that two inmates at the […]
Earlier this week, horrifying images of thousands of spring breakers crowding onto Florida’s Clearwater Beach in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic surfaced online, sparking widespread outrage. Now, five Florida college students have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The students—who attend the University of Tampa—were tested during spring break, CBS-affiliated WKBN reports. They vacationed together, along with other […]
The manufacturer that makes Purell hand sanitizer is dealing with a new legal battle. Per USA Today, Purell’s parent company, GOJO Industries, is facing a class-action lawsuit for “false and misleading” about the product’s effectiveness. Purell is known for claiming that the product can kill “99.99 percent of illness causing germs.” This would make a single squirt more effective […]
