Vanilla Ice is catching heat over his planned gig in a coronavirus hotspot. The rapper — best known for 90s hit “Ice Ice Baby” — is scheduled to perform in Austin, Texas, on Friday at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill’s Independence Day Throwback Beach Party. But both Austin and Texas this week experienced record […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday indicated that he didn’t know what the “19” in COVID-19 stands for. In the middle of a riff in which he also made racist jokes about the coronavirus, Trump said he wondered about the infection’s official name. “COVID-19, COVID, I said what’s the 19?” he asked at an event in […]
Twitter users let out a collective sigh of despair at President Donald Trump’s latest falsehood. Trump claimed during a White House speech on police reform Tuesday that scientists have “come up with the AIDS vaccine.” Medical professionals, celebrities, journalists, political commentators and others were quick to fact-check the president’s erroneous claim, reminding him there is currently […]
Michael Flor, a Seattle resident, surprised doctors and family members when he recovered from a life-threatening coronavirus infection this spring. Then he got his own surprise ― a hospital bill for $ 1,122,501.04. Flor, 70, shared the 181-page document with The Seattle Times, which noted that he has insurance and Medicare coverage and so may only […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson tried to spread another myth about coronavirus infections on Thursday. It didn’t go well. Carlson got a quick fact-check on his own show when his guest, Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel, stepped in with a correction. Carlson had claimed that “young children do not spread the coronavirus.” But Siegel said […]
President Donald Trump praised his administration’s work on the coronavirus pandemic as “incredible” on Monday despite repeated missteps, including long delays in dispensing test kits. Then he attempted to shift the blame to a nameless “somebody” from “a long time ago.” “There has been so much unnecessary death in this country,” Trump said, adding: “It could have […]
For almost 40 years Nike has tended towards evolution over revolution when launching a new version of the Air Zoom Pegasus, its reliable all-round running shoe. But it’s fair to say that the 37th edition of the shoe will have a significantly different feel underfoot than its predecessor. That’s because the material used in the […]
Banksy’s world-famous “Girl With The Pierced Eardrum” mural has received a coronavirus-themed update. A face mask was this week added to the British street artist’s interpretation of Johannes Vermeer’s painting “Girl With A Pearl Earring,” which appeared on a wall in his home city of Bristol, southwest England, in 2014. Check out the mural before: […]
CNN’s Chris Cuomo has been battling COVID-19 for more than two weeks now ― and his fight’s not over yet. Cuomo said on Tuesday night he was getting “cocky” when he reached 60 hours without fever, close to the 72-hour goal for patients suffering from the coronavirus infection. But then it came back, hitting 101 […]
Jerry Falwell Jr. partially reopened his Liberty University ― an evangelical Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia ― despite the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Now, the New York Times reports that nearly a dozen students have symptoms that could suggest infection ― and Falwell is facing the wrath of both parents and critics. One parent […]
A seven-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis has received a new drug after his family campaigned for the treatment on the NHS. Olly, from Hull, has been given the drug Orkambi, following its approval for UK use last month. In June, he wrote to the then prime minister Theresa May after the drug was delayed as […]
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