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Delta, United, and other U.S. airlines canceled more than 500 Christmas Eve flights as a surge in COVID-19 cases impacts their staff. According to flight tracking site FlightAware, as of midday Friday United has canceled 175 flights for Christmas Eve and 69 on Saturday. Delta dropped 145 flights on Friday and 111 for Christmas Day. Additionally, JetBlue […]
Westside Gunn is recovering from an emergency health scare. The Griselda rapper took to Instagram on Tuesday to reveal he was on the way to the hospital for the second time this month. “Pray for me,” he wrote. “They had to call for emergency, I couldn’t breathe. It’s under control now but otw to hospital.. 2x this […]
Marking the implementation of something that should have been carried out much sooner, at least immediately upon the former VP taking office, the Biden administration said Tuesday that it would distribute half a billion at-home COVID-19 tests amid Omicron variant concerns. In a statement shared early Tuesday morning ahead of a planned address to the […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a warning just last week that the omicron variant will become the dominant strain in the United States in a matter of weeks. That day has already come. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, omicron accounts for 73 percent of new cases across the U.S., making it the dominant variant in […]
Moderna said Monday that the currently authorized booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine significantly increases neutralizing antibody levels against the widespread Omicron variant. In a statement in which preliminary booster data and an update to its variant strategy were both detailed, the Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company explained that the currently authorized booster of 50 micrograms of […]
A new study has found that fully vaccinated people who are then infected with COVID-19 may acquire a “super immunity” to future variants of the virus, NBC Chicago reports. The Oregon Health & Science University study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has discovered that antibodies in breakthrough case blood samples were at most 1,000% more effective than the […]
After reporting its highest number of single-day COVID cases, the NFL announced several key changes to its controversial testing protocols. According to a memo obtained by the Associated Press, the league and NFL Players Association have agreed to reduce the frequency of mandatory testing for asymptomatic vaccinated players. The letter, which was sent to all 32 teams on Saturday, […]
Kangol Kid, a co-founder of the legendary Brooklyn hip-hop group U.T.F.O., passed away early Saturday after a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. Veteran New York City promoter Van Silk confirmed the news in a text message to HipHopDX. “RIP KANGOL KID,” he wrote. “He passed at 3:02 a.m. My prayers go out to my […]
The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes is the latest Broadway show to shut down amid the recent rise in breakthrough COVID-19 cases. In a statement shared on Twitter Friday, the Rockettes announced that its The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes has been canceled for the rest of the season. “We regret that we are unable to continue the Christmas […]
A panel of health advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given preference to the mRNA COVID vaccines for adults 18 and over. According to NBC News, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously voted to recommend the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines over Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose jab. The vote, which was announced Thursday, was primarily […]
