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There’s a rebellion brewing over coronavirus restrictions and people are ready to take up arms against fellow citizens … at least according to this angry veteran who’s openly threatening civil war. California’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors…
More great news from the NBA … a 2nd straight week with ZERO positive COVID-19 tests from players and staffers inside the bubble. While MLB, NFL, and other sports are scrambling to figure out how to proceed safely — the NBA seems to have it…
As new COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the United States, President Trump's chief of staff reportedly wants the White House to publicly ignore the pandemic as much as possible.A new report in The New York Times focused on Republicans breaking from Trump on the coronavirus crisis describes how White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows "has been particularly forceful in his view that the White House should avoid drawing attention to the virus." In fact, the report says that even amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases around the country, some of Trump's "closest advisers" insist that the "best way forward is to downplay the dangers of the disease."This advice is evidently getting through to Trump, who in a recent interview with Fox News again asserted that the coronavirus is "going to disappear," a prediction he said he'll be right on "eventually."Although the Times report describes how some Republican lawmakers have pushed the White House to bring back regular coronavirus briefings led by Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, Meadows has reportedly "for the most part opposed any briefings about the virus." Meanwhile, Trump, the Times writes, now "seems less interested in the specific challenges the virus presents," and David Carney, an adviser to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), told the Times, "The president got bored with it."More stories from theweek.com GOP lawmaker reportedly overheard calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'f—ing bitch' Creator of cognition test Trump brags of acing says it's 'supposed to be easy' for unimpaired people Trump's campaign has vastly outspent Biden, who currently leads by 9 points
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who’s become a prominent leader during quarantine and a potential Biden VP, says she’s contracted the coronavirus … without a single warning sign. Mayor Bottoms shared her diagnosis Monday afternoon, saying ……
“So, Mr. President, don’t be a co-conspirator of COVID,” Cuomo said at a news briefing. “Acknowledge to the American people that COVID exists, it is a major problem, it’s going to continue until we admit it and each of us stands up to do our part.” Cuomo said Trump was “enabling” the virus if he failed to acknowledge the severity of the situation, and slammed the president’s comments that the spike in U.S. cases was due to increased testing.
DaBaby’s set to fire up a nightclub crowd on the Fourth of July, but he and his team insist safety precautions are in place. The rapper’s performing at the 4th of July Bash at Cosmopolitan Premier Lounge in Decatur, GA Saturday night, but due to…
Jimmie Johnson — one of NASCAR’s biggest stars — is out of the Brickyard 400 this weekend after testing positive for coronavirus. The 7-time Cup Series champ says the situation is “extremely disappointing,” but that his first priority is “the…
The NHL is releasing its COVID-19 numbers … with the league reporting 26 out of roughly 250 players have tested positive for the virus since June 8. The NHL allowed small groups of players to start training at their team facilities earlier this…
Africa’s first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as volunteers received injections developed at the University of Oxford in Britain, while officials said the continent of 1.3 billion people cannot be left behind. The large-scale trial is being conducted in South Africa, Britain and Brazil. The African continent now has nearly 325,000 cases as countries loosen restrictions under economic pressure from citizens who say they have to feed their families.
A new large-scale review has confirmed some of the major symptoms associated with COVID-19, including a persistent cough, fever and loss of smell. Carried out by researchers from the University of Leeds, UK along with four other universities, the new review is one of the biggest so far to investigate COVID-19 symptoms and included data from 148 separate studies. In total, the researchers had access to data on 24,410 adult cases of COVID-19 in nine countries, including the UK, China and the USA, which enabled them to identify the common symptoms of the virus.
It was business as usual for Tom Brady on Tuesday … the GOAT continued workouts with his new teammates — this despite a COVID-19 outbreak on the Bucs roster. TB12 got in the sweat sesh with about two dozen Tampa Bay players down at Berkeley…
Dr. Deborah Birx, President Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator, warned the nation’s governors on a conference call that 70 coronavirus testing sites had been destroyed amid widespread protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd.During the Monday call, a recording of which was obtained by the Daily Beast, Birx said governors should “scramble now to make sure there is testing available in urban areas.” Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the White House coronavirus task force, said that spikes in cases stemming from the unrest are “an issue our team is following and there is a concern.”Birx’s comments mirror those of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has raised concerns that the protests could lead to a spike in cases. “It’s a perfect set up for further spread of the virus in the sense of creating these blips which might turn into some surges,” Fauci admitted on local D.C. radio station WTOP last week.Members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard have already tested positive for coronavirus since being deployed on May 31 to help deal with mass demonstrations and rioting in the nation’s capitol.Data shows that Texas, California, Oregon, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Arkansas, and Arizona have all seen sharp increases in coronavirus hospitalizations since Memorial Day weekend, as states have begun to open up following months of lockdowns.“There is active community spread in California, North Carolina, Utah, and Arizona,” Birx said on the call, adding that her team had seen evidence of community spread in “metro Hispanic neighborhoods.”
China on Monday challenged U.S. Senator Rick Scott to show evidence supporting his accusation that Beijing is trying to slow down or sabotage the development of a COVID-19 vaccine by Western countries. Scott declined to give details of the evidence when asked during the interview on Sunday but said it had come through the intelligence community.
The full autopsy report for George Floyd has been completed by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner and it reveals he tested positive for COVID-19 in early April … though he was likely asymptomatic at the time of his death. The 20-page analysis…
A 28-year-old sumo wrestler from Japan died Wednesday after battling COVID-19, the Japan Sumo Association confirmed. The wrestler is Shobushi — real name Kiyotaka Suetake — who’s been wrestling at the pro level in Japan since 2007. The story is…
Chinese hackers are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research, US authorities said Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between the superpowers as markets slumped on warnings from the US Federal Reserve that prolonged shutdowns could cause “lasting damage”. Europe, meanwhile, pushed ahead with plans to gradually reopen for summer tourism, even as fears persist of a second wave of infections in the pandemic that has forced more than half of humanity behind closed doors in recent months. With some countries scrambling after a fresh surge in cases and the global death toll exceeding 294,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that the virus “may never go away.”
There has been some confusion that COVID-19 is the 19th coronavirus disease, but the 19 refers to the year the new virus jumped to humans, 2019. In fact, "of the millions, perhaps billions, of coronaviruses, six were previously known to infect humans," The Washington Post reports.> Four cause colds that spread easily each winter, barely noticed. Another was responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome that killed 774 people in 2003. Yet another sparked the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in 2012, which kills 34 percent of the people who contract it. But few do. SARS-CoV-2, the bad seed of the coronavirus family, is the seventh. It has managed to combine the infectiousness of its cold-causing cousins with some of the lethality of SARS and MERS. [The Washington Post]"This is a virus that literally did not exist in humans six months ago," Geoffrey Barnes, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, told the Post. "We had to rapidly learn how this virus impacts the human body and identify ways to treat it literally in a time-scale of weeks." But scientists do know that coronaviruses invade the body by breaking into ACE2 receptors, which regulate blood pressure and are plentiful in the lungs, intestines, and kidneys. And they suspect the "corona" — or spikes on the outside of the virus — in the COVID-19 virus are more effective at attaching to the receptors, making it easier for them to infiltrate the cells to replicate, as the Post explains in this video.The coronavirus hijacking your cells "would be as if somebody walked into a car factory and snapped his fingers and said suddenly, 'You're making Twinkies!'" David Leib, chair of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth College, told WGBH. "It takes the virus roughly 10 minutes to get inside that cell and then to begin its replication cycle," and within days "you are a walking bottle of virus."The coronavirus had infected at least 4.1 million people around the world by early Monday, including 1.3 million in the U.S., and officially killed 282,727 people, including 79,528 in the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University's tally.More stories from theweek.com The dark decade ahead White House reportedly rejected 'ludicrous' coronavirus relief plan that would have curbed retirement benefits 5 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's coronavirus strategy
Eating out in a pandemic-afflicted world might look more like visiting a loved one in prison … if this test run in Italy is any indication. Restaurant owner Valerio Calderoni and his wife, Martina, are serving as guinea pigs for a possible new…
Rapper Fred the Godson has died from coronavirus complications … according to people very close to him. The Bronx MC — popular for tracks like “Toast To That” with Jadakiss and “Doves Fly” featuring Pusha T — died a couple weeks after…
Rapper Fred the Godson has died from coronavirus complications … according to people very close to him. The Bronx MC — popular for tracks like “Toast To That” with Jadakiss and “Doves Fly” featuring Pusha T — died a couple weeks after…
President Trump has a few ideas about how to treat COVID-19 patients — based on some promising lab findings — but the scientists around him ain’t so sure. The Prez played amateur M.D. during Thursday’s coronavirus task force briefing … after…
President Trump has a few ideas about how to treat COVID-19 patients — based on some promising lab findings — but the scientists around him ain’t so sure. The Prez played amateur M.D. during Thursday’s coronavirus task force briefing … after…
Superheroes will NOT unite at Comic-Con this year … the event’s been nixed for the first time in history due to COVID-19 concerns. Organizers announced the stunning though understandable decision Friday morning citing pandemic concerns. It’s the…
A Fashion Nova employee has contracted the coronavirus, setting off a massive cleaning process and resulting in several employees being sent home. According to a spokesperson for FN Logistics … the employee who recently tested positive for…
This was bound to happen — several stands have popped up across L.A. selling COVID-19 protective gear … but for once, vendors are NOT fearing getting shut down by cops. We’re told one stand in particular just off Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood is…
Philadelphia 76ers partner Michael Rubin has the likes of Kevin Hart, Meek Mill, Justin Bieber and Magic Johnson backing his amazing plan to raise money for COVID-19 relief. Rubin launched the “All In Challenge” Tuesday — it’s a massive fundraiser…
YNW Melly’s going to have to get over the coronavirus from his jail cell — a judge shot down his request to get out while awaiting his double murder trial. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ … the rapper will remain in the Broward…
The evangelical pastor who vowed to keep preaching unless he was “in jail or the hospital” has died of COVID-19 … only weeks after defiantly opening his church doors. Bishop Gerald Glenn showed off his jam-packed congregation back on March 22 at…
Nobody’s completely safe from the coronavirus, but strangely enough … some of the safest from infection are among the most dangerous criminals in the world. While fears of COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons are increasing — more than 300 federal…
A heartwarming viral story — about the grandma who mistakenly texted a young man about coming to Thanksgiving dinner, and then he did for years — has a sad addendum … her husband is dead from coronavirus complications. Wanda Dench is the…
Steven Van Zandt is not sugar-coating what America’s future will look like post-coronavirus … saying he has no idea when it’ll be safe to do a concert again. Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band guitarist told us he doesn’t think anybody will ever…
Chris Cuomo is getting up close and personal about his battle with COVID-19 — and the reason he’s so intimate is because he wants folks to know they can fight and win. The CNN anchor is still working and aired his x-ray Monday night during his…
Twitter’s CEO just beat every other big shot’s donation to coronavirus relief by tenfold — he’s dropping ten figures to help, and then rolling whatever’s leftover to another great cause. Jack Dorsey made the stunning announcement Tuesday on his…
YNW Melly is begging a judge to let him out of prison … because he says he’s on the verge of dying from COVID-19. The rapper’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, filed legal docs, obtained by TMZ, claiming the rapper — in prison awaiting his murder trial…
Derek Fisher and Gloria Govan were supposed to say “I do” this coming weekend, but now that it’s postponed they’re focused on helping the nurses, doctors and EMTs battling coronavirus. The ex-Lakers star and current Sparks head coach was on “TMZ…