Covid Concealment Shows Why Congress Must Act to Protect Public Health
Secret NIH communications underscore the need for more independent oversight of risky scientific research. Source link
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‘Wicked’ Casting Director Bernard Telsey on How COVID Delayed Projects and Helped Land Their Perfect Fiyero: ‘It Was Always Jonathan F—ing Bailey’
When Universal finally greenlit “Wicked,” casting director Bernard Telsey certainly knew the musical. He brought Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth to the iconic Broadway cast when it…
Florida congresswoman accused of stealing COVID funds maintains innocence
U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick reiterated her innocence Monday outside a Miami federal courthouse, where she faces charges of conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19…
Disney Box Office Hits $6 Billion for First Time Since COVID Thanks to ‘Lilo & Stitch’ and ‘Zootopia 2’
All hail the Magic Kingdom. Disney notched a major box office milestone, surpassing $6 billion in global ticket sales. This is Disney’s fifth time crossing the $6 billion benchmark — and…
Pfizer forecasts 2026 profit below expectations on lower Covid product sales
Pfizer has rolled out a sweeping cost reduction programme in response to the drop in Covid-19 sales Pfizer on Tuesday (Dec 16) forecast 2026 profit below Wall Street estimates as it…
Who Is Stephanie Hockridge? Ex-Arizona TV Anchor Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Covid Loan Scam and Will be Jailed with Ghislaine Maxwell
Disgraced former TV anchor Stephanie Hockridge has been sentenced to ten years in prison for her involvement in a massive Covid relief fraud scheme — and she will be spending the next…
BofA Tower gets Chicago’s biggest mortgage bond deal since Covid
A mortgage loan for Chicago’s Bank of America (BOA) Tower is being refinanced with US$700 million in bonds, a rare bright spot for the city’s beaten-down real estate market, according to…
Democratic congresswoman accused of bilking COVID money calls charges a 'sham'
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the Florida Democrat charged with bilking the government of $5 million in disaster assistance then using it to get elected to Congress, said Thursday that…
DOJ charges Democratic congresswoman with stealing $5 million in COVID relief money
The Justice Department announced an indictment Wednesday against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, accusing her of bilking the government of $5 million in pandemic funds…
COVID vaccines show an unexpected benefit: helping fight cancer
Personalized vaccines that steer the immune system to fight unique cancer cells show promise, but another powerful way to treat cancer might be hiding in plain sight. People being treated…
Why so many people still feel stuck in the ‘COVID pause’
As the COVID-19 pandemic wound down, people began reflecting on the strange way it had warped their sense of time. The feeling became known as “the pandemic skip”: the sense of having lost…
Moderna shares hit a low after report suggests the FDA plans to tie COVID shots to child deaths
Pharma stocks took a fresh hit on Friday following a report in The Washington Post that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reportedly plans to link COVID-19 vaccines with the deaths of…
Drugmakers fall on report US to claim Covid shot killed kids
Vaccine makers’ shares fell after a report that US President Donald Trump health officials plan to link Covid shots to the deaths of around two dozen children in a presentation to advisers…
Team Trump to Use Unverified Data to Blame Deaths on Covid Vaccine
The findings they plan to present appeared to be pulled from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, which collects claims of adverse reactions and results of taking…
Don’t Abandon the MMR Vaccine
The legacy of Covid-era overreach is no reason to give measles a new lease on life. Source link
RFK Jr. Draws Backlash After Revealing How Little He Knows About Covid
The secretary of health and human services and noted anti-vax conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just admitted that he doesn’t know how many Americans died from Covid-19. On…
RFK Jr. Is Compounding the CDC’s Covid Mistakes
The HHS secretary is substituting one set of unscientific, politically driven priorities for another. Source link
Patricia Lockwood’s Completely Singular Covid Novel
Some experiences, some books, are not meant to be picked apart. They are watercolor gouaches that wash over us as we delight in a palimpsest of colorful impressions. Patricia Lockwood’s…
Movie Producer David Brown Indicted in $12 Million Fraud Involving Fake Covid Tests and a Patty Hearst Film
Movie producer David Brown was arrested Wednesday on charges that he defrauded business partners out of $12 million by creating fake companies and using investor funds to pay his personal…
RFK Jr Just Made It Very Hard to Get a Covid Vaccine
“Well, well … we need to talk about messaging,” Jordan responded, stopping Charlamagne in his tracks. “I actually went to the Capitol and had a meeting with him, and we talked about…
COVID vaccines no longer widely authorized in U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration just approved a new round of updated COVID-19 vaccines for the fall, but fewer Americans will be eligible for the shots for the first time. The agency,…
RFK Jr. Has a Sinister Plot to Scrap the Covid Vaccine Next
The Covid vaccine could be off the shelves in a matter of months. Despite saving millions of lives during the pandemic, the Trump administration is planning to nix nationwide access to the…
Suspended Time: A Privileged History of Covid
Gatekeepers and the media elite sentimentalize the memory of the lockdowns. Source link
Contributor: AI will be more disruptive than COVID. Which party can seize the moment?
Democrats, bless their hearts, keep trying to figure out the magic formula to stop President Trump. But here’s a cold splash of reality: If Trump’s popularity ever collapses, it will…