Tag Archives: covid-19

In a pandemic full of mixed messaging, you would not be alone if you found this past week in Covid news particularly confounding. While outbreaks in Europe and Asia are on the rise— and a spike in cases in the United States likely on the horizon, Congress this week removed …

Elton John was forced to postpone two shows in Dallas, Texas, after catching Covid-19. John announced his positive test on Instagram and said those with tickets to the two gigs — originally scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 25, and Wednesday, Jan. 26 — would be contacted with the new dates soon. …

Proud Trump sycophant and misinformation spreader Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) praised himself as a “truth teller” after he made public his decision to run for a third term in office, breaking a promise he made in 2016 to retire after serving two terms. Perhaps the allure of an opportunity to …

On a searing Saturday afternoon, a massive crowd in neon beach attire bounces in unison to bass-heavy soca beats at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition grounds 20 miles south of Miami Beach. Hundreds of revelers, a majority of them maskless, holler and twerk as they slowly inch toward a …

A Florida school district began collecting federal funding on Thursday after Florida’s government withheld state funding to punish the school for implementing a mask mandate and other precautions aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19. Alachua County Public Schools, the first district in the country to receive federal funds, is …

Pfizer and BioNTech announced the results of a new study that showed their Covid-19 vaccine was safe and effective in children aged five to 11 years old. The pharmaceutical companies announced their findings Monday, September 20th, saying that two doses of the vaccine for children of the appropriate age “compare …

Live Nation will require all artists, crew and attendees show proof of full vaccination or a negative test at their venues and upcoming festivals starting October 4th. The concert giant previously announced that it would be up to the artists whether to enforce the mandate. Live Nation further clarified guidelines …

While the Covid-19 pandemic has had its fair share of negative effects, it has also been responsible for a number of positive cultural shifts, especially in the e-commerce space. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing forced consumers online and caused companies to pivot, adapt or fail — and that meant major …

The known global death toll from Covid-19 has surpassed four million people, theNew York Times reported on Thursday. The most recent data comes from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, with the reported figures widely believed to undercount pandemic-related deaths. “The numbers may not tell …

In a speech, President Biden celebrated the U.S. reaching a milestone 300 million vaccinations in 150 days while warning communities with low vaccination rates that they “will be very hurt” by the Covid-19 variants that are spreading across the globe. “I see an important milestone that just didn’t happen on …