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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world hit more than 10 million on Sunday, the Associated Press reports. The virus still has a firm grip on European countries; there have been outbreaks in Switzerland and England. “We have seen flare-ups across the country in recent weeks,” British Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC before claiming that the government is […]
Did Donald Trump prioritize favorable optics over public health? It’s definitely believable. According to a recent Washington Post report, the president’s campaign not only failed to enforce social distancing at last week’s Tulsa rally, it also took steps to thwart them. The outlet reports that hours before Trump took the stage, workers at the BOK Center in Tulsa had labeled thousands of arena seats with […]
An unpublished study by Spanish virologists suggests the novel coronavirus has been around much longer than we thought. According to Reuters, researchers at the University of Barcelona announced Friday they had detected COVID-19 in sewage samples collected in March 2019—about nine months before the disease was first reported in Wuhan, China. The team of researchers said they began testing frozen […]
Audiences will have to wait a little longer to see Christopher Nolan‘s action thriller Tenet. Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the highly anticipated film will hit U.S. theaters in mid-August, rather than late July. As pointed out by to The Hollywood Reporter, the news comes after multiple states—including Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida—reported alarming spikes in coronavirus cases. In […]
As a confounding number of Americans continue to behave as if COVID-19 isn’t real, the country has now broken its own record of daily cases. The U.S. bagged a record number of new coronavirus cases in a single day—45,557—on Wednesday, per an NBC News tally of new diagnoses. This tops the previous record for highest […]
Disneyland and Disneyland California Adventure will delay their phased reopening, which was scheduled to begin on July 17, Deadline reports. Both parks have been closed since March. The announcement was made on Wednesday, hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed the state had a record 7,149 new coronavirus cases the previous day. Disneyland will now […]
It appears that Donald Trump really asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, contradicting senior White House officials who have argued that Trump’s comments were made facetiously. During Saturday’s infamous campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trump said, “When you do testing to that extent you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find […]
China has mad the decision to suspend poultry imports from a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas over COVID-19 concerns. In addition to the temporary suspension of imports from the plant, per an NPR report, China’s General Administration of Customs office has confirmed that any products that have already arrived in the region will be seized […]
Although Florida has started its reopening process, Miami’s DJ Khaled isn’t trying to risk it. On Friday, Khaled took to Instagram where he posted a picture of himself in a hazmat suit, gloves, and a face mask. “Play wit it if you want,” Khaled wrote. “I got kids I don’t play games. … First day out […]
President Trump is heading back on the road despite the coronavirus pandemic still in full effect. Yet, it seems like this decision might have come at the cost of some employees’ health. Ahead of Trump’s Tulsa rally on Saturday, it was reported by the New York Times that six staff members who were scheduled to work […]
