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An Australian zookeeper was critically injured Friday after she was mauled by two lions, CBS News reports. Emergency services were called to Shoalhaven Zoo near Sydney on Friday morning. When they arrived, they found an unnamed 35-year-old woman with severe injuries to her head and neck. The employee was airlifted from the zoo to a nearby hospital where she […]
Facebook has once again banned Natural News, an infamous peddler of conspiracy-focused content. But the ban wasn’t due to the outlet’s propagation of fake news—it was for alleged spam tactics. The tech giant made the move last week after discovering the outlet was using troll farms from North Macedonia and the Philippines to spread its articles, many of which included false information […]
COVID-19 has now claimed the lives of over 100,000 people in the United States in less than four months, CNN reports. An average of 900 Americans have died every day from the virus. This staggering total doesn’t even take into account some individuals who passed away at home from complications related to the coronavirus, but were […]
Antibody tests for COVID-19 could be inaccurate up to half the time, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency, as spotted by CNN on Tuesday, makes note of this in a new guidance message posted to the Interim Guidelines for COVID-19 Antibody Testing section of its official site. The CDC—following similar cautionary assessments […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the complete lifting of the country’s nationwide state of emergency. “Today the government will lift the state of emergency across the nation,” Abe said on Monday, per NHK. “We’ve set some of the most strict criteria in the world to lift the declaration, and we concluded that prefectures […]
A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been detected in Arkansas after a group of high school students had a pool party. “A high school swim party that I’m sure everybody thought was harmless,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said of the gathering, according to Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told the New York Post that though everybody likely […]
The anti-malaria drug that Donald Trump has praised as a treatment for coronavirus patients has been linked to increased death rates and heart risks, a study finds. CNN reports that seriously ill patients with coronavirus who were given the drug were actually more likely to die, despite what Trump has said. The large observational study took into account […]
A new study shows that if the U.S. had enforced social distancing guidelines one week earlier in March, around 36,000 fewer people would have died from COVID-19. The research comes from Columbia University disease modelers who say if the country had started issuing lockdowns on March 1, two weeks before many stay-at-home orders had taken effect, […]
Two studies published in the journal Science on Wednesday suggest monkeys that recovered after becoming infected with COVID-19 appear to develop an immunity to the virus, Reuters reports. One study involved researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) infecting nine monkeys with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and re-exposing them after they had recovered about one […]
Mike Schultz, 39, thought that his age and active lifestyle meant that he wouldn’t be seriously affected by COVID-19. “I knew what I thought going in [about the coronavirus]. I didn’t think it was as serious as it was until after things started happening,” he told Buzzfeed News. “I thought I was young enough for it not to […]
