Remember at the beginning of the pandemic, when things happened like Steph Curry interviewing Dr. Anthony Fauci? How good of an example that was of basketball’s cultural importance, and being able to bring important public health information to the people? Read more…
Enlarge / Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, receives the Moderna Inc. COVID-19 vaccine during an event at the NIH Clinical Center Masur Auditorium in Bethesda, Maryland, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) As COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue across the United States, many are wondering how […]
It doesn’t help anyone to act as if “you should get vaccinated” and “you don’t need to get vaccinated” are arguments that need to be treated as equal because of the archaic journalistic construct of giving equal weight to all sides of a story. Some stories have a clear right and wrong. YOU SHOULD GET […]
Joe Rogan is ready to admit this much: he sure is a “f**king moron.” Those are the exact words he used in a new episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Spotify on Thursday, at least. Now, in a direct response to a controversy Joe himself created a week ago, he’s (sort of) walking back anti-vaccine […]
I know we all want to get back to normal, but Texas’ “fuck it all, we’re completely open” approach seems a Texas-sized amount reckless. We’re close. More people are getting vaccinated by the day, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, but we still need to be smart and do exactly the opposite of […]
Nick Jonas pulled double duty as the host AND musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. Kicking the show off, the cold open reimagined the COVID vaccine lines as a fake game show called “So You Think You Can Get the Vaccine,” hosted by Dr. Anthony Fauci (Kate McKinnon). On the competition […]
Expand / White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx talks during a media briefing at November 2020. (charge: Tasos Katopodis / / Getty Images) On Tuesday, Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx declared that she’ll end decades of government support following the Biden transition has been finished. The move comes following controversy over the […]
Expand / Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wore a Washington Nationals protective mask following a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. (charge: Getty | Bloomberg) A public affairs officer in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is […]