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Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has eased restrictions on select nonessential businesses, including retail stores, restaurants, and movie theaters. Variety reports that some cinema operators will reopen their Texas locations in the upcoming days with reduced prices and heightened safety measures. Mitchell Roberts, the CEO of EVO Entertainment, said the company plans to reopen theaters in Schertz and Kyle, Texas, […]
TV show hosts and comedians, James Corden and Trevor Noah, are going out their way to help those impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. According to Variety, Corden told around 60 production employees at The Late Late Show that he would be covering their salaries. Production was forced to shut down on the show on March 15 […]
R. Kelly continues to lobby for his release. Billboard obtained legal documents filed by Kelly’s attorney, Steven Greenberg, on Friday. In the documents, Greenberg alleges that the singer tested “1/10 of one point below diabetic.” This status, coupled with Kelly’s high blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight issues, places him “at the very top of the high-risk category” for people […]
About a month before coronavirus was declared a pandemic, President Donald Trump publicly theorized the deadly disease would “miraculously” go away once the weather heats up. “And by the way, the virus, they’re working hard, looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away,” Trump said during New […]
An Illinois surgery technician died from coronavirus just days before he was scheduled to retire. According to the Chicago Tribune, Juan Martinez tested positive for this disease on April 17, after he and his son, Juan Martinez Jr., began exhibiting symptoms around his 60th birthday in mid-April. Martinez Sr., who had worked as a surgical tech for 34 […]
As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
On Wednesday, Offset teamed up with Young Thug, Rich the Kid, and SAINt JHN to hold a virtual music live stream titled Offset and Friends. The event, which was Presented by Oculus Venues and Supersphere, raised funds for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. During Young Thug’s performance, the Atlanta rapper revealed that he suffered from both kidney and liver […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis has laid out a plan Wednesday to reopen Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came just one day after the state tallied an additional 83 COVID-19 deaths, marking its biggest spike in daily fatalities since the crisis began. The governor told reporters Florida will enter “phase 1” of reopening its economy starting Monday, but […]
A pug named Winston has become the first known U.S. canine to test positive for the novel coronavirus. According to WRAL, the virus was detected this month during a study at Duke University. Winston’s owners, the McLean family, participated in the school’s coronavirus research study at the beginning of April, after the parents began exhibiting mild symptoms in mid-March. Researchers determined […]
As states prepare to lift COVID-19 restrictions, a new poll indicates the majority of Americans will avoid large-crowd events until a vaccine is available. The Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, conducted from April 15 to 21, surveyed 4,429 adults about their interest in attending concerts, movie theaters, amusement parks, and sporting events before a vaccine was developed. Fifty-five percent of participants said movie theater screenings […]
