Tag Archives: Coronavirus

As the pandemic lives on, it’s causing chaos in America’s healthcare system. More than 900 staff members of the Midwest Mayo Clinic system have tested positive for the novel COVID-19 within the past two weeks. A Kelley Luckstein told CNN, “Our staff is being infected mostly due to community spread …

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, party-goers are getting tested days before parties and events in hopes of avoiding having to wear a mask. Authorities are warning that this is not the smartest idea. “That’s actually a false sense of security. It’s a false narrative,” explained Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles …

On Wednesday, two more House members announced they have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total to 26, by CNN’s calculation. Additionally, eight members of the Senate have tested positive for the virus. Two Republican Representatives, Dan Newhouse from Washington and Doug Lamborn from Colorado, announced their positive test results separately.  …

A grocery store in the mid-Atlantic region is apologizing for using the term “super spread” as a joke in a Thanksgiving ad. The latest edition of Giant Food’s magazine featured an ad that read: “Hosting? Plan a super spread.” The text appears below an image of various foods, including a …

If your family and friends are the singing type during the holiday gatherings, you may want to share the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendation which urges Americans who are hosting for the upcoming holiday season not to sing while gathering inside their homes and even protect their pets from interacting …

Miami is doing right by its people during these unprecedented times. City government officials have agreed to distribute $8.55 million in two COVID-19 relief programs to financially assist small businesses and help families put food on the table by buying groceries. Wednesday morning, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez called for a …

The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the first Covid-19 test designed to be taken at home for results within an hour. According to NBC News, the agency announced emergency use authorization for the Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit on Tuesday night. The FDA claims that the test, which will …

Two Ohio newlyweds have opened up following their Halloween wedding that became a coronavirus superspreader event. The couple says that “in the moment,” they did not think that their wedding could result in such massive contamination for multiple people. Anthony and Mikayla Bishop said that of the 83 attendees to …

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the Covid-19 vaccine may not give everyone the same degree of protection. “It isn’t necessarily effective for every single person, so you don’t know the degree to which you’re protected,” Fauci told Spectrum News in an interview Tuesday. “A vaccine could prevent you from getting …

A nurse in South Dakota has spoken out about the challenges of treating some of the most severely ill COVID-19 patients. She says the hardest part of her job is convincing them that the virus is real.  Jodi Doering, a nurse in one of the country’s most hard-hit states, went …

A top coronavirus adviser to Donald Trump encouraged Michigan residents to “rise up” against restrictions placed on schools and businesses to combat a surge of COVID-19. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House coronavirus task force with no formal training in infectious disease, quoted a tweet outlining a new …

A Texas four-year-old has been left an orphan after both of his parents died from coronavirus within 100 days of each other. The soon to be five-year-old, Raiden Gonzalez, lost his mother Mariah, 29, to the virus in October, just a few months after his father, Adan, 33, passed away …

 Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, have enrolled their three children in a new school after growing concerns that they were not following COVID-19 guidelines. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was the first to report that the children switched from Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s …

A nurse dying from coronavirus recorded a heartbreaking video to his family just hours before succumbing to the virus.  Sergio Humberto Padilla Hernandez, 28, tested positive on October 22 and hospitalized on November 5 with trouble breathing. He recorded the video for his family the following day while remaining hopeful …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo clapped back after Donald Trump said the whole country would be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine in the spring, except for New York. On Friday, Trump spoke from the White House to announce Operation Warp Speed is ready to distribute Pfizer’s vaccine as soon as it …