DNC attendees test positive for COVID-19, despite mask-wearing
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DNC attendees test positive for COVID-19, despite mask-wearing

Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all. Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country. “When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC…

Former COVID czar Anthony Fauci hospitalized with West Nile virus
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Former COVID czar Anthony Fauci hospitalized with West Nile virus

Anthony Fauci was hospitalized this month after contracting West Nile virus. Fauci, 83, the country’s former COVID-19 czar, as hospitalized for six days and is now home where he is recuperating from the mosquito-borne disease, The Washington Post reported. “A full recovery is expected,” his spokesperson said, according to the…

AI model 98% accurate in detecting diseases from a tongue pic
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AI model 98% accurate in detecting diseases from a tongue pic

This technology could be aah-mazing! Researchers in Iraq and Australia say they have developed a computer algorithm that can analyze the color of a person’s tongue to detect their medical condition in real-time — with 98% accuracy. “Typically, people with diabetes have a yellow tongue; cancer patients a purple tongue…

MSNBC’s Joy Reid compares ‘elderly’ Biden’s potential COVID recovery to Trump dodging an assassination attempt
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid compares ‘elderly’ Biden’s potential COVID recovery to Trump dodging an assassination attempt

MSNBC host Joy Reid posited that President Joe Biden’s potential recovery from COVID-19 would be the “exact same thing” as former President Donald Trump’s dodging of an assassin’s bullet during the network’s coverage of the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. Biden was discovered to have caught COVID for a second…

Biden signs bill ending COVID national emergency with month to spare
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Biden signs bill ending COVID national emergency with month to spare

WASHINGTON — President Biden signed a bill Monday ending the COVID-19 national emergency more than three years after it went into effect. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, issued the proclamation in March 2020 to temporarily expand the executive branch’s power to steer funds to battle the virus. President Biden signed a…

Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges from home, keeps quiet after latest COVID lab leak report
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Dr. Anthony Fauci emerges from home, keeps quiet after latest COVID lab leak report

What’s up, doc? Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci emerged from his home Monday, one day after a bombshell report revealed that the Energy Department has concluded that COVID-19 likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Fauci, who retired after more than five decades as a federal employee…

Woody Harrelson faces criticism for sharing COVID-19 conspiracy on SNL
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Woody Harrelson faces criticism for sharing COVID-19 conspiracy on SNL

Actor Woody Harrelson is coming under fire for sharing a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy during this weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live.” Harrelson, 61, who hosted the show, made the statement during his opening monologue. It was his fifth time on stage as an SNL host. He began to share a…

Biden admin pushed to ban Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation’
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Biden admin pushed to ban Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation’

The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both “elevate” and “suppress” purported COVID-19 “misinformation” — but ended up “censoring info that was true but inconvenient” to policy makers, according to the latest edition of the “Twitter files” revealed Monday. The coercion campaign during the pandemic began with the Trump administration,…

Life expectancy lowest since 1996 because of COVID, overdoses: CDC
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Life expectancy lowest since 1996 because of COVID, overdoses: CDC

Life expectancy in the United States is at its shortest since 1996, dragged down by an increase in COVID and drug overdose deaths, according to federal data. Coronavirus caused the third-most deaths in the US in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, with only heart disease…