A Michigan teacher suddenly began feeling sick in the middle of a flight from Chicago to Reykjavík, Iceland last week, and so she took the precaution of taking a rapid COVID test on the plane. To her shock, she tested positive. So , the woman — a teacher named Marisa Fotieo — decided to do […]
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CDC draws criticism for shorter COVID quarantine, isolation as omicron bears down
Enlarge / Travelers wait in line to check-in at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on December 24, 2021. -On Christmas Eve, airlines, struggling with the Omicron variant of Covid-19, have canceled over 2, 000 flights globally, 454 of which are domestic, into or out of the US. (credit: Getty | YUKI IWAMURA ) As the […]
Details released on the Trump administration’s pandemic chaos
Enlarge / Scott Atlas, a White House adviser, used his position to advocate for allowing the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread and tried to block testing for it, which would further that goal. (credit: MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images ) Over the past few months, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has been investigating […]
Vaccine trial finds a glitch with children in one age range
Enlarge (credit: Reshi Irshad / Getty Images ) On Friday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their latest vaccine trial was showing some odd results in children within a specific age range. Children in the 2- to 5-year age group didn’t produce as strong of an antibody response to the particular vaccine as older and younger […]
After months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans
Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) It’s been a rocky road for Apple’s return-to-office plans. Over the past few months, we’ve reported on numerous stops and starts, but the industry behemoth seems to have come to the hardest stop yet, according to a Bloomberg report. According to […]
Current vaccines are enough to fight omicron, but massive wave is coming fast
Enlarge / Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President, during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 1, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Anna Moneymaker) Though booster doses of current vaccines can foil the ultra-transmissible omicron coronavirus variant, a towering wave of omicron cases may peak in the […]
Pfizer’s anti-COVID drug still looks effective after further analysis
Enlarge / Scenes like this might become less common if a new SARS-CoV-2 protease inhibitor becomes widely available. (credit: Getty Images ) On Monday, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer released more data on its anti-COVID-19 drug, named Paxlovid. The company} had released its initial data on the drug in early November, and it looked extremely promising : […]
Kathy Hilton Reportedly Inks New Deal With Bravo Just In Time To Film Season 12 Of RHOBH
Kathy Hilton is back and better than ever as far as Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is concerned. The reality TV star reportedly just signed a new deal with Bravo, completing a contract after initially holding out for more money ahead of season 12 of the uber-popular TV show. Related: Dorit Kemsley’s Husband Comments On Her Mental […]
Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills Halts Production Due To COVID Outbreak Among Cast — Again
We’re just hoping that everybody involved and their families all come through this OK! According to reports published on Monday, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is on a filming hiatus after several of the show’s stars and at least one behind-the-scenes employee tested positive for COVID-19 late last week. Related: ‘General Hospital’ Star Fired From […]
Climate pledges were one of the major CEO themes of this year
Executives came out swinging in 2021 with targets to transition their businesses Read More