Four Florida men are facing federal charges for allegedly refusing a court order to stop selling a toxic bleach solution called “Miracle Mineral Solution,” or MMS, as a drinkable preventative, treatment and cure for COVID-19. Mark Grenon, 62, and his sons Jonathan Grenon, 34, Jordan Grenon, 26, and Joseph Grenon, 32, all of Bradenton, were […]
State and local officials are pausing or reversing plans to reopen public life as the coronavirus pandemic surges in parts of the country that previously seemed to be trending in the right direction. Carlos Giménez, the Republican mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County, the state’s largest, announced on Monday that he would close restaurants, gyms and other […]
Another possibility, even in not-so-sick cases of COVID-19, is adult-onset asthma. Other viruses are known to trigger the breathing condition in people who’ve never had it before, so it’s possible COVID-19 can do likewise, says Dr. Prescott. If that’s the case, you might start to experience chest tightness, wheezing, coughing, or shortness of breath, especially […]
WASHINGTON — On June 12, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did something it had not done for months: It held a press briefing. Widely touted as the finest public health agency in the world, the CDC had been dormant since March 9, when one of its top officials held a teleconference with […]
A California family is grieving the loss of a 51-year-old man who died after contracting COVID-19 at a barbecue in June. Thomas “Tommy” Macias of Lake Elsinore, California, died June 21, three days after testing positive for the coronavirus. Just one day before his death, he posted an emotional note on social media in which he […]
President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Wednesday for repeating his claim that the coronavirus will “just disappear,” even as new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continued to surge to record daily highs and health experts issued dire warnings about the alarming new figures. As a number of states reversed course on their reopening plans amid spiking […]
Chase Rice urged fans to “stay in your own space” after being hit with a barrage of criticism for staging a concert that appeared to have no social distancing measures in place. Over the weekend, the country singer-songwriter posted a photo to his Instagram Story showing a packed, mask-free crowd. The snapshot was taken from the […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s Black mayor said Monday that he was called a racist slur and told he should “swing from a tree” after he announced mandatory face masks in the Missouri city. Mayor Quinton Lucas on Twitter shared a screenshot of the texts, which came after he announced Friday that masks […]
On a mild Wednesday evening in March, about two weeks before the pandemic all but shut down New York City, 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle stopped in a park in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Canarsie to unwind on his way home from work. While responding to a report of shots fired in the area, New York Police […]
Miley Cyrus has spent the first half of 2020 embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle. The 27-year-old actor and singer tells Variety that she quit drinking to undergo vocal cord surgery last fall. She decided to stay sober after recovering from the procedure, too. “I’ve been sober sober for the past six months,” she said. “At the beginning, it was […]
If you plan on attending another protest, the preventive game is also important on the nutrition front. If you’re able to, prep a slow-cooker before you go to the protest so that something hearty is waiting for you when you get back. And if you can, bring a water bottle and portable snacks—nut butter or […]
Fox News hosts on Monday grilled White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on spikes in COVID-19 cases in the nation just three days after he declared: “There is no second wave.” Kudlow — the man who declared in February that COVID-19 was “contained … pretty close to airtight” before more than 115,000 Americans died of […]
Vice President Mike Pence insisted Monday that Oklahoma’s COVID-19 cases have “dropped precipitously” and “in a very real sense they’ve flattened the curve” — just two days after the state posted a record high in daily new cases. Pence blatantly misrepresented the facts as he addressed concerns about President Donald Trump’s plan to lure thousands […]
New findings show that a North Carolina family’s dog thought to be the nation’s first such pet to test positive for COVID-19 was likely never infected. Veterinary laboratories for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said a series of tests on Winston, a pug belonging to the McLean family of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were completed last week. Though Winston […]
NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) – A spike in harassment of Asian-Americans since the coronavirus pandemic began has led community activists in the United States to fight back – forming street patrols, rallying on social media, and supporting each other online. Asians of varying national backgrounds have suffered a surge of attacks this year, which […]