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The Los Angeles mayor is cracking down on illegal house parties. On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced he has authorized the Department of Water and Power to shut off utilities to homes that host large gatherings, which are prohibited under coronavirus restrictions. “While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, these large house parties have essentially become […]
Paying no heed to COVID-19, an illicit rave reportedly took place on Saturday night under Brooklyn’s Kosciuszko Bridge. This gathering is said to have drawn hundreds, and comes at a time in which bars and clubs remain closed in NYC due to the pandemic. Videos circulating on social media claiming to show the rave captured some in attendance […]
The Daily Mail has obtained police bodycam footage showing a visibly distraught father getting violently dragged away from his six-year-old daughter’s hospital bedside in the North of England by authorities moments after he had been told that she was being taken off of life support. Dr. Rashid Abbasi didn’t want to let go of his daughter Zainab’s […]
Some players on the St. Louis Cardinals, who are one of a few teams dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that appears to be putting the baseball season in serious jeopardy, reportedly hit up a casino prior to the virus spreading around a sizable chunk of their roster. On Monday, MLB Network’s Jon Heyman reported that rumors stating a […]
Hours before the first day of school began, an Indiana junior high had its first confirmed case of coronavirus. According to NBC5, a student at Greenfield Central Junior High School tested for the virus earlier this week, but his/her results weren’t known until Thursday. Superintendent Harold Olin said the Hancock County Health Department notified the school about the infection, […]
The New York Times reports New Jersey elected leaders and public health officials have grown concerned about the state’s rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. Last week, New Jersey recorded its lowest seven-day average of new coronavirus cases (224) since early April. That average has risen to 416 new cases every day, which represents […]
Those unsolicited seed packages you may or may not have seen popping up on the timeline, and/or in your mailbox, have now resulted in warning messages being issued in all 50 states. CNN has compiled the warning messages from each state here, noting that officials in the U.S. are stating that the packages “appear” to originate from […]
COVID-19, despite what anti-maskers would have you believe by way of conspiracy and general ineptitude, is very much a real threat. Here in the States, specifically, the situation is made even more dire thanks to a lack of leadership on containment efforts from the POTUS and his usual swarm of despicables. And while much of […]
The World Health Organization has revealed that unlike other viruses, COVID-19 is not subjected to seasonal fluctuations. As Reuter reports, WHO instead says the pandemic is taking shape as “one big wave” that perseveres regardless of the time of the year. “We are in the first wave. It’s going to be one big wave. It’s […]
The first official treatment for COVID-19 has arrived in Canada. Health Canada gave the go ahead to Canadian manufacturer Gilead Sciences Inc yesterday to treat patients with the antiviral drug remdesivir, which is already being used under emergency or conditional authorization to fight the deadly virus in other countries including Japan, Australia, Singapore, and the […]
