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Dr. Anthony Fauci was thrust into the media spotlight this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Joe Biden appears to want Fauci to stick around next year, too. Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director and one of America’s leading infectious disease experts, will be Biden’s chief medical adviser when he […]
A photo of a Texas doctor cradling a COVID-19 patient in his arms made the rounds on social media this weekend, as the U.S. reels from a surge in cases following Thanksgiving. The doctor in the image, Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, has repeatedly spoken about the […]
Actor Jeff Bridges, who is 70, took to social media on Monday night to announce that he’s been diagnosed with lymphoma. “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light,” Bridges wrote. “I have been diagnosed with Lymphoma. Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of […]
Sean Conley, a guy roundly referred to in the press as the “White House physician,” arguably only added further confusion to the chain of events leading up to Trump claiming a COVID-19 diagnosis during a presser on Saturday. After getting through a round of thanks and a mention of prayer, Conley gave some opening comments before […]
Michael Bloomberg has pledged an enormous donation to four of the U.S.’s historically Black medical schools, in response to the impact COVID-19 has had on the Black community. The donation is also an effort to boost the health and wealth of these communities, The New York Times reports, with Bloomberg set to give $100 million […]
A woman in Russia was just trying to catch up on her rest but a snake had other plans. Per TMZ, an unnamed woman from Dagestan was rushed to the local hospital after complaining about not feeling well. When she arrived, she told the doctors that a snake had crawled into her mouth while she was […]
Hydroxychloroquine is once again being touted as a treatment for COVID-19, and this time by a Houston-based doctor who believes face masks won’t curb transmission of the virus. Dr. Stella Immanuel has become an internet sensation, pulling in tens of millions of views on a Facebook video on Monday, recorded by Breitbart. The Daily Beast […]
Fresh off completing his residency program in 2014, Shankar Sivananthan thought the best gift he could give himself was season tickets to the Toronto Raptors. He had followed the team since its inaugural season led by Damon ‘Mighty Mouse’ Stoudamire and finishing up his education meant he could devote the time he wanted to his […]
During a round of press he did on Tuesday, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci referred to COVID-19 as his “worst nightmare,” and warned that the world’s fight against the pandemic is not nearly a wrap. As Fauci put it, the virus is “something that’s highly transmissible. … In a period—if you just think about it—in a […]
On the same day that some good coronavirus news was made when the World Health Organization stated that COVID-19 transmission from asymptomatic people is “very rare,” some bad coronavirus news was made when Texas announced they hit a one-day record for the number of hospitalizations attributed to the disease. According to CNBC, 1,935 Texans are […]
