L ike many people during the early months of the pandemic, Ari, 21, lost her job in the summer of 2020. She’d been working at a casino in the U.K., but government shutdowns forced her employer to lay her off. “I had to get money somehow,” she says. Ari, whose …
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Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving may miss a significant portion, if not all, of the upcoming NBA season due to his refusal to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Nets General Manager Sean Marks released a statement on Tuesday noting that the all-star guard “will not play or practice with the team …
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Following another week of surging Covid-19 infections — including early data suggesting a rise in breakthrough cases among those who are fully vaccinated — the Biden administration announced their recommendation of a booster vaccine shot in a statement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on August …
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Sen. John Kennedy went on Fox News on Thursday to make it perfectly clear that he knows how effective and important the covid-19 vaccines are. He also made it perfectly clear that that knowledge won’t stop him from cravenly caving to his party’s anti-vax fanaticism. Asked about rising Covid-19 cases, …
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Anthony Fauci said the truth is what did him in with the bomb-throwers on the right because he dared to contradict a lying president during the height of a global pandemic. During a Friday interview on Fox News, the White House’s chief medical adviser was asked about the recent attacks …
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Three whistleblowers wrote a letter to Congress urging President Biden’s administration to increase its efforts to vaccinate migrants who are being held in detention in the United States. The three doctors who authored the letter sent to Congress on Friday — Scott A. Allen, Pamela McPherson, and Josiah “Jody” Rich …
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a huge concert event for the city’s post-pandemic reopening and has called on veteran producer Clive Davis to helm the show, the New York Times reports. The “mega-concert,” part of de Blasio’s proposed “Homecoming Week” and tentatively scheduled for August 21st, …
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In a stadium of over 20,000 fans standing shoulder to shoulder eagerly awaiting their first star-studded concert in over a year, no one was more excited than Dave Grohl. “This is a fucking rock concert!” the Foo Fighters frontman said multiple times between the band’s set, as if he still …
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“Oh, baby, let the bad times roll,” the Offspring sing on the title track to their new album, resigning themselves to a world in peril. It’s the stalwart California punk band’s first studio LP in nearly a decade, and their first for Concord after a lengthy run on Columbia, but …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed surprise at recent polling that shows many Republicans and Trump voters have no plans on getting vaccinated, and he’s hoping the former president will do more to urge his followers to do so. The government’s top infectious disease expert told Fox News on Sunday, “If [Trump] …
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