A New York man already facing charges for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 returned to federal court today for a completely different — albeit arguably unsurprising — indictment: An alleged scheme to distribute and sell fake Covid-19 vaccine cards. Jia Liu, a Marine Corps reservist, and Steven Rodriguez, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With skyrocketing cases of Covid-19 due to the Omicron variant, there’s a lot of new information out there about which face masks can actually help protect you against …
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LL Cool J will not be performing during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2022 on ABC after testing positive for Covid-19, Billboard reports. Chlöe, who was also set to appear on Friday, has pulled out of the show as well. “I know it’s disappointing to the …
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Former Republican congressman and current Texas gubernatorial candidate Allen West, who is unvaccinated, unleashed a string of tweets bashing vaccines and mandates while he was hospitalized for Covid-19. On Saturday and Sunday, West’s Twitter account announced that his wife, Angela, had tested positive for Covid-19. While his wife is vaccinated, …
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Kyrie Irving is living in the shadows of vaccine denial. The Brooklyn Nets superstar has also vanished from the opening of his team’s run at the NBA championship, apparently because he refuses to comply with a New York City law requiring proof of vaccination against Covid-19 at indoor sporting events, …
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UPDATE (8/25):Vaccines will be offered at Kanye West‘s upcoming Donda listening party in Chicago. “Soldier Field and the Chicago Department of Public Health are pleased to be working together to offer 1,500-plus vaccinations for those not yet vaccinated (Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson) and assist with setting up their second …
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Social media platforms like Facebook “are killing people” by allowing Covid-19 misinformation to proliferate, President Biden said on Friday. A reporter asked the president if he had a message for social media companies about Covid misinformation. Biden replied, “They’re killing people. Look, the only pandemic we have is among the …
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Five months after the federal government passed the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) to assist independent venue owners, promoters and other small live music businesses who’ve been dormant during the pandemic, applicants are finally beginning to receive grant approval notices. Getting a grant approved means venues still must wait to …
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It only took one instance of public shaming for me to never leave my home maskless again. In April 2020, I went for a jog, bare-faced, along a wide boulevard in my Brooklyn neighborhood. “Wear a mask!” a man shouted, scandalized, as I passed him several feet away. He’d been …
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Eric Church, Darius Rucker, and Ashley McBryde appear in an Ad Council public service announcement encouraging music fans to learn more about the Covid-19 vaccine and to get vaccinated so that live music can resume in earnest. “All these places that we stand in — the Ryman, the Opry House …
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