Face masks have become a part of life for many of us to prevent the spread of COVID-19—and we’ll have to keep wearing them through much of 2021, Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a recent interview with Business Insider. In the interview, Dr. Fauci said […]
BERLIN (AP) — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month’s treatment for poisoning, with doctors now believing that a “complete recovery” from the Soviet-era nerve agent is possible for him, the hospital said Wednesday. Navalny spent 32 days at Berlin’s Charite hospital, 24 of them […]
Michael Caputo, the politically appointed assistant secretary of public affairs for the nation’s health department, has reportedly apologized to the health secretary and his staff after accusing government scientists fighting the coronavirus pandemic of having a “resistance unit” and plotting to undermine President Donald Trump. Caputo’s apology to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar […]
About two weeks after California’s North Valley Baptist Church shot into the national spotlight over its refusal to follow local coronavirus guidelines, its lead pastor has changed his tune. Faced with fines of more than $ 100,000 for defying Santa Clara’s public health order prohibiting indoor worship services, Pastor Jack Trieber has agreed to move his […]
Michigan State University has requested that all of its local students self-quarantine for two weeks due to “an alarming surge” in COVID-19 cases, the school said Saturday. The request follows at least 342 confirmed cases of the virus being linked back to the university since Aug. 24, when students began returning to the campus in […]
Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK. On Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine. But on Saturday, the university […]
Several large clinical trials for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine have been halted due to a possible serious adverse reaction. The company is now investigating whether or not the issue is directly related to the vaccine. AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is being developed with researchers at Oxford University, is one of just a few candidates that’s in […]
The California Department of Parks and Recreation closed all trails in the hills of Santa Monica over the Labor Day weekend after a woman died hiking there in extremely high temperatures. Other hikers had to be rescued. Malibu Search and Rescue posted a tweet pleading with people not to hike in the heat wave. National parks in Ventura […]
A college professor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who had been battling symptoms of the coronavirus for several weeks reportedly collapsed and died on Wednesday while delivering an online class from her home. Paola De Simone, 46, a member of the government and international relations faculty at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, passed out while teaching via […]
Parts of Greater Manchester will not have lockdown restrictions eased as planned following a government U-turn. Measures in Bolton and Trafford were due to be eased overnight after a fall in cases earlier in August. But they will “now remain under existing restrictions” following “a significant change in the level of infection rates over the […]
The band Smash Mouth gave Instagram followers a glimpse of “fan mail” it received after headlining a concert in early August at a South Dakota motorcycle rally that is now linked to the spread of nearly 200 cases of COVID-19. The image posted Saturday showed a smashed Smash Mouth CD and a letter calling the band members “motherfuckers.” Several of the top […]
Wisdom teeth removal isn’t likely to be high on your to-do list if they’re not bothering you. After all, your wisdom teeth are kind of like the appendix of your mouth: They’re there, but there’s really no reason for them—you can live a totally healthy life without them. Sometimes your wisdom teeth will just, you […]
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was overcome with emotion live on air Friday following the broadcast of a profile of a healthcare worker from Miami who has been hospitalized since March after contracting the coronavirus. Toward the end of the segment detailing EEG technician Rosa Felipe’s months-long battle against COVID-19, during which she has been isolated from […]
Aug 22 (Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been put on a plane set to take him to Germany, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter on Saturday. Gravely ill Kremlin critic Navalny, who is in a coma after drinking what his allies believe was poisoned tea, was meant to be airlifted to […]
After trying an all-meat diet for a few weeks, singer James Blunt says he developed signs of scurvy, a rare condition caused by a severe vitamin C deficiency. Blunt ate almost entirely meat and condiments for a full two months while studying engineering and sociology at the University of Bristol in the 1990s, he said […]