Bill Maher says Howard Stern won’t ‘ever leave the house’ due to germaphobia

“Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned whether he would ever get a chance to hang out with Howard Stern in the post-pandemic era during a frank discussion about the legendary shock jock’s germaphobia.

Maher discussed his mercurial relationship with Stern – and their differing approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic – during a conversation with comedian Kevin Nealon on an episode of his “Club Random” podcast this month.

The HBO star said he’s unsure whether Stern will “ever leave the house” due to his well-documented fear of being exposed to the virus.

“I have a long, storied history, ups and downs with that man, and I find it so sad these days that I can’t see him because of the pandemic. We don’t agree on that,” Maher said. “Not that I think it has made us not like each other.”

A years-long rivalry between the two broadcasters has cooled in recent years – to the point that Stern appeared live on set for an episode of “Real Time” in late 2019.

Maher lamented that pandemic interrupted their newfound friendship.

“We didn’t have a good relationship for a very long time. Very bitter. And then, boy, it all changed and it just shows there’s some great things about age and getting older and wiser and mellower and smarter and we became such good friends again,” Maher said.

“I don’t think I’ll ever see him again because I don’t think he’ll ever leave the house because he’s very, very, look, I don’t want to judge it, but he’s scared of germs,” he continued.

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Howard Stern appeared on Bill Maher’s show “Real Time” in late 2019.
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“People have different views about that and they’re allowed. I don’t agree with some things he said about the pandemic, I think, were very wrong. You know, ‘we shouldn’t treat people who don’t get vaccinated.’ Stuff like that,” Maher added.

Stern broadcast his SiriusXM radio show from home throughout the pandemic and, by his own admission, has rarely ventured outside. In October 2022, Page Six reported that Stern went out to dinner with a group of friends for the first time since the pandemic began.

Howard Stern is outspoken about his fear of germs.
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Stern later described the toll the outing took on him during an episode of his show.

“I really had an exhausting weekend, emotionally, physically,” Stern said. “For the first time in two years I ventured out of the house.”

Howard Stern hosts a SiriusXM radio show.
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“It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven’t been out in two years,” Stern added.

As Maher referenced, Stern has also been an outspoken critic of anti-vaccine viewpoints and argued COVID-19 vaccination should be mandatory.

Mediaite was first to report on Maher’s remarks.

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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, but was stepped up under Biden, whose administration was focused on the removal of “anti-vaxxer accounts,” according to Free Press reporter David Zweig.

For example, in June 2021, hours after Biden publicly raged that social media companies were “killing people” for allowing purported vaccine misinformation to propagate, former New York Times reporter and noted vaccine doubter Alex Berenson was banned from the site.

Berenson responded by suing Twitter, forcing the release of internal communications that showed the White House had pressured the company to squash his account.

“It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine,” Berenson had tweeted.

“Think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS,” he also wrote.

As recently as this month, Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of US Public Policy released a summary of meetings with the White House detailing its alleged pressure campaign, according to Zweig.

Former New York Times reporter and noted vaccine doubter Alex Berenson was banned from Twitter in June of 2021.

Culbertson said in her notes that the administration was “very angry” that Twitter had not taken more aggressive action in silencing vaccine critics and wanted the company to do more, files showed.

Among those whom Twitter did clamp down on was Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School

Kulldorff had tweeted in March 2021 that both children and adults who had been previously infected with COVID did not need the vaccine. That was flagged by the site as “misleading” — even though it was in line with the vaccine policies of “numerous other countries,” Zweig wrote.

That incident was just the icing on the cake, according to the journalist, who uncovered “countless instances of tweets labeled as ‘misleading’ or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.”

The latest revelations came after previous “Twitter Files” found the FBI and CIA had meddled in the company, and prompted it to bow to political pressure, including convincing Twitter to censor The Post’s exposé on how Hunter Biden used his father’s name to secure questionable business arrangements overseas in the weeks before the 2020 election.

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NY probing NYC pediatrician for alleged vaccine record fraud

An Upper West Side pediatrician disciplined in 2007 in an unprecedented case of faking vaccine records has been hit with another state probe for allegedly doing it again, The Post has learned.

A parent said he reported Dr. Mark Nesselson to the state Office for Professional Medical Conduct after seeing a falsified vaccination for his child allegedly prepared by the doctor.

The father said his daughter had not been seen by the pediatrician on the day recorded for one of the vaccines in 2021, which was on an official form provided by Nesselson.

The doctor also gave the family a form for insurance reimbursement that indicated an office visit had taken place that day for the shot when it had not, the dad said.

The purported phony record included MMR, polio vaccine and other standard shots for toddlers. It was allegedly created by Nesselson for the child’s mother, presumably to be used for school admissions, according to a copy of the parent’s complaint to the state.

One father said his daughter (not pictured) had not been seen by the pediatrician (not pictured) on the day recorded for one of the vaccines in 2021, which was provided by Nesselson.
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Proof of vaccination is mandated for day care or attending school in New York.

The father said his family doled out about $4,300 to Nesselson over two and a half years, although some of that did cover legitimate office visits with the pediatrician.

The OPMC acknowledged the parent’s complaint in March 2022, according to a copy of a letter seen by The Post. The dad said he was later interviewed by investigators.

“It’s important that doctors act like doctors,” the furious dad said.

In 2007, a state disciplinary board placed Nesselson on probation for three years after he admitted to faking vaccination forms. He was fined $10,000 and allowed to treat patients under a monitor.

The state investigated him again in 2011, looking at whether he was complying with the terms of the previous order, records show. At that time, he signed an agreement saying he would adhere to the probation for 36 months, records show.

The vaccination record, allegedly created by Nesselson, was presumably to be used for school admissions.
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Nesselson did not return a request for comment. The state Department of Health said it could not comment on investigations.

DOH “takes instances of potential medical misconduct seriously and acts appropriately to protect the health and safety of patients,” a spokesman said. 

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Chinese artist Siyuan Zhuji turns COVID-19 tests into art to represent pandemic in China

For most of China’s 1.4 billion people, regular COVID-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art.

Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his mouth.

His video clips show teeth and tongue and an approaching cotton bud. In some shots, a PPE-clad health worker can be seen through his teeth, administering the test.

“This is how our life is now, this period of time involves doing regular nucleic testing,” Zhuji told Reuters in an interview in his studio.

“It’s a way of life that’s unique to our time.”

Zhuji said the idea for the videos came to him when he began considering the vulnerability of the mouth, as an entry point for the virus and also for the repeated testing to find it.

He has recorded about 40 tests and says he will continue taking video with his thumb-sized camera as long as regular testing is required.

Artist Siyuan Zhuji poses with a camera he places in his mouth to film nucleic acid tests for the COVID-19.
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He aims eventually to display the videos simultaneously on a big screen in a grid, a snapshot of pandemic life in China. He calls his work “Hesuan Jiance”, which translates as “COVID test”.

“This work can represent this era. This is what I want to express. It is to record everyone’s current life,” Zhuji said.

The novel coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 and for nearly two years China was relatively virus free. But the Omicron variant brought persistent outbreaks across the country, which authorities have been battling with a barrage of testing.

In many places, a negative COVID test is required to use public transport, and enter schools, places of work, shops, banks, parks and anywhere else people gather.

China’s pursuit of “zero COVID” means Zhuji might be filming tests for some time yet.

“I will continue shooting these videos until the end of the pandemic,” he said. “If I die before the end, then I will keep shooting until I die.”

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Biden screws the frugal, America’s real polarization and other commentary

Libertarian: Biden Screws the Frugal

The problem with President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness “runs far beyond finances,” fumes Fiona Harrigan at Reason: Consider the “many college graduates who made strategic choices to avoid taking on debt in the first place.” Her parents “convinced me that starting my adult life that far in the hole wasn’t worth the tradeoff.” So she “quietly retired the list of schools I truly wanted to attend.” With “$35,000 annually in merit aid” and “some strategic choices, my college education never cost more than $2,000 per year.” “I never lived on campus. I took on heavy course loads and cashed in on AP credits to finish school a semester early. . . . At times, I worked three jobs to afford travel to internship and conference opportunities, as well as the nontuition costs of my education.” Now she’s “wondering which opportunities I unnecessarily gave up in the name of saving and scrimping.”

Populist: America’s Real Polarization

Obsessing about “partisan polarization” misses “the real division” now, argues Michael McKenna at The Washington Times: “the chasm between those for whom society and its institutions are working just fine and those for whom society and its institutions are either not working at all or are actively working against.” That holds not just for the Biden “student loan disaster,” which makes “the working class pay for the education of the well-off,” but also “Inflation Reduction Act” spending: “Just about all of the $380 billion . . . will wind up in the pockets of company executives, stockholders and those well-off enough to buy electric vehicles (average price now more than $66,000), cutting-edge heat pumps, solar panels.” Add the bipartisan CHIPS “legislation in which Congress gave $75 billion to semiconductor manufacturers that, combined, have made nearly $250 billion in profits in the last five years.”

Pandemic journal: No Djokovic at US Open

Novak Djokovic is “arguably the world’s greatest tennis player,” but “tennis fans won’t see him on one of its biggest stages at the U.S. Open” as the feds won’t let unvaccinated noncitizens into America, complains The Hill’s Joe Concha. “And it’s all for nothing”: Djokovic has natural immunity from 2020 and 2021 COVID bouts. And “we’re seeing triple-vaccinated people contracting coronavirus.” If it’s “about public health and safety,” “explain why Djokovic, nowhere near anyone on a court, cannot play while more than 23,000 fans fill Arthur Ashe Stadium” without “showing the same vaccination card Djokovic is required to present.”

Elex watch: DeSantis Foe Must Want To Lose

Ron DeSantis’ Democratic opponent, Rep. Charlie Crist, “seems determined to lose” Florida’s race for governor, smirks Corey DeAngelis at The Wall Street Journal: As his running mate, he chose Karla Hernández-Mats, president of Miami’s United Teachers of Dade and America Federation of Teachers veep. She and the UTD opposed school reopenings in 2020, and the AFT “successfully lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to tighten school-reopening guidelines, which kept schools elsewhere closed.” She has also “publicly disdained parents” and opposed school choice. “Crist might have learned something from Virginia, where Democrat Terry McAuliffe last year failed to regain the governorship” after saying he didn’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach.

Historian: Dems’ ‘Fascist’ Confusion

“For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with ‘fascism’ ” yet did Trump “illegally” nullify $300 billion” in student-loan debt to shore up his base before the midterms? asks Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. Or “weaponize the IRS” — sic it on Joe or Hunter Biden, amid evidence of possible corruption on the son’s laptop? “Weaponize the FBI”? Did agents’ texts discuss how to stop Biden’s election bid? Did the ex-prez order a raid on President Barack Obama or Biden’s homes? “In fact, of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most inept or indifferent, or the most obstructed” in using government agencies “for his own partisan political advantage.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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1,300 NYC school staffers must get COVID vaccine or be fired

Time is running out for some 1,300 city Department of Education employees on unpaid leave for a year since the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Under an agreement they signed a year ago, the staffers must show proof of at least one jab by Sept. 5, before the new school year starts.

If they do so, “they will return to their original school,” officials said.

If not, they will be “deemed to have voluntarily resigned.” 

“I’m very stressed. I’m praying to the last minute that something will change,” said an unvaccinated teacher who worked more than 20 years at a Queens elementary school.

There are around 1,300 NYC DOE employees who have been on unpaid leave for a year.
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She took the unpaid leave after her appeal for a religious exemption was denied, but still received city health insurance that covered therapies for a son and daughter with special needs.

To make ends meet, she took out a loan on her pension savings.

“I’m still on the fence,” she said of the decision to vaccinate. “I really don’t want to do it, but if I have to do it for my kids, I will have to.”

The unpaid employees — including hundreds of teachers — have been getting health coverage since skipping the city’s deadline to get vaccinated last Oct. 4.

Another roughly 1,100 unvaccinated DOE employees who rejected the unpaid-leave deal have already been fired, the DOE said.

But if those staffers “provide proof of full vaccination, they will be eligible for rehiring,” with no guarantee of the same position. 

Another 82 teachers accused of submitting fake vaccination cards were taken off the city payroll on April 25 after they were caught up on a Suffolk County criminal investigation, but will be put back on the payroll on Sept. 6 pending the probe.

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63% of NYC residents caught COVID, half not boosted: poll

Only half of New York City residents have received a COVID-19 booster shot even as nearly two-thirds reported catching the virus since the outbreak first arrived in the Big Apple in 2020, a new health survey released Tuesday reveals.

The rate of full vaccine and booster coverage across the five boroughs ranged from a high of 60% in Manhattan to a low of 34% in the Bronx, according to the poll of 2,500 adults conducted by the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health by Emerson College.

The survey found that 86% of residents received at least one COVID jab and 60% of parents had their kids vaccinated.

Only half of New York City residents have received a COVID-19 booster shot.
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The poll’s findings reveal the heavy toll COVID-19 has taken on New Yorkers, the initial epicenter of America’s contagious viral outbreak. More than 73,000 residents have died from the virus in New York State.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents — 63% — said they had been stricken with COVID-19, the poll found.

Ayman El-Mohandes said he was surprised the booster rate wasn’t higher.
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There was a big disparity by borough in the number of New Yorkers who were sick with COVID-19 who received approved medical treatments — ranging from 30% in Manhattan to only 6% in Staten Island and 12% in The Bronx. 

There’s another troubling new finding: 22% of people said they or a family member had suffered from “long COVID,” lingering illnesses or symptoms lasting weeks or months after recovery.

“Sixty-three percent reporting having COVID-19 is a big number,” said Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, dean of CUNY’s School of Public Health and co-leader of the Pandemic Response Institute.

But he said that figure has to be put in context, noting some residents may have only had mild symptoms.

El-Mohandes said he was surprised that only 48% of city adults received their COVID-19 booster shots.

“The numbers are still lagging. I would have expected the booster rate to be higher,” he said.

“These survey findings help us to examine the blind spots within our communities regarding the continued risks of COVID-19 exposure and need for vigilance in protection. It is important to disseminate more information about eligibility for treatment to all health care workers across the city and to ensure accessibility regardless of geographical location.”

He said the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and state and city officials to loosen requirements for COVID-19 quarantining and isolation means “more responsibility has been placed on the shoulders of individuals to make better choices for themselves and their families,” adding, “we as public health advocates must double down on education about testing, prevention and treatment for those at high risk.”

About 70% of Manhattanites said school children should be required to get vaccinated.
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El-Mohandes said he was most concerned about the disparities by borough.

For example, 69% of parents in Manhattan have had a child vaccinated, compared to 55% in The Bronx.

Queens respondents were most likely to consider both vaccination and treatment (80%) as
preferred interventions, while Staten Island residents were least likely to accept both (66%).

Two-thirds of Manhattanites said they would take a booster every six months if recommended by health authorities as compared to Staten Island at 41%.

Nearly two-thirds of New York City residents reported catching the virus since the outbreak first arrived in 2020.
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Regarding vaccine mandates across the board, Manhattanites were the most likely to
support restrictions and Staten Islanders the least.

Asked about employer vaccine mandates, 73% of Manhattan residents expressed support compared to only 55% of Staten Island respondents.

Should school children be required to get vaccinated? About 70% of Manhattanites said yes while 51% of Staten Islanders gave a thumbs down.

Queens residents were most supportive of proof of vaccination to participate in indoor activities, 69%, compared to only 53% of Staten Islanders.

Similarly, only 61% of Staten Islanders trust the science behind COVID-19 vaccines, nearly 20 points lower than 78% of Manhattanites who did so.

The poll found that many New Yorkers have moved on from COVID-19, with the pandemic largely in the rearview mirror.

About  30% across all boroughs are paying less attention to COVID-19 messaging now compared with one year ago, the survey found.

The CUNY SPH COVID-19 survey queried 2,500 city adults from June 29-30 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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How Nets, Kyrie Irving’s season was derailed by NYC vax mandate tweak

The Nets’ 2021-22 season — and possibly the breakup of the dynasty that never was — can be traced to a four-day stretch last summer, and a single one-line update in a city mandate.

New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate — from the way it abruptly changed to the way the situation was handled — may have left a bad taste with some players, sources said.

From Kyrie Irving missing two-thirds of the season, prompting James Harden to demand a trade and now Kevin Durant having followed suit, Brooklyn could lose three future Hall of Famers in less than six months — along with any chance at a title.

This train first went off the rails not during the season but in the preseason; in August 2021 when Mayor Bill de Blasio issued an emergency executive order allowing unvaccinated local athletes who lived outside the city to play home games, then switched the city mandate just four days later to bar them as well.

“There was a time where I got my hopes really, really high and all the air was just let out. And it’s just a level of disappointment,” Irving had said cryptically during the season, never spelling out clearly when that time was. But The Post can.

De Blasio’s initial executive order on Aug. 16 initially specified among the exemptions, “A nonresident professional athlete/sports team who enters a covered premises as part of their regular employment for purposes of competing.”

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That meant Irving — who lives in West Orange, N.J. — would’ve been eligible to play despite not adhering to the vaccine mandate. It would’ve also provided a path for any other Nets to remain unvaccinated and still suit up. In theory, under the original mandate, any unvaccinated player could have temporarily moved outside the city and still played.

“Kyrie wasn’t the only one on the Nets who didn’t want to get vaccinated,” a source with direct knowledge of the situation told The Post.

“No one was expecting the mandate the way in which he wouldn’t be able to play. No one expected it,” a source close to Irving said. “The entire thing was that vaccination was absolutely going to be a choice and not anything that was forced.

“There were conversations around that whole artist component, so if you were an artist visiting from outside — also if you didn’t live in New York City — you’d be allowed to play. When the mandate came down everybody was confused because no one expected for it to take on that tone … everybody was a little surprised.”

The Nets claim to have been as caught off-guard as anyone when the mayor reversed the exemption on Aug. 20, despite there having been talk de Blasio might change that non-resident exemption to only apply to unvaccinated players on visiting teams.

“There is a chance the Nets could have got the mayor to stick to the original language,” one of the direct sources said.

Former Mayor Bill deBlasio
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There was chatter that de Blasio might tweak the original language somewhat, and Nets owner Joe Tsai is not believed to have lobbied city hall in the immediate aftermath to keep the executive order the same.

But the Nets say they were as stunned as everybody else when the change happened. As it turns out, the lightning-quick four-day time frame didn’t allow the Alibaba co-founder — who spends much of his time in Hong Kong — time to act; and a source close to Irving felt it unlikely to have made a difference if he had.

“[Tsai’s] hands were tied,” said a source close to Irving.

“Mr. Tsai had no knowledge that Mayor de Blasio’s office was going to change the original Key to NYC mandate making vaccines required for home team players who were non-residents of New York City,” said Mandy Gutmann, the Executive VP of Communications for BSE, the Nets’ parent company told The Post this week.

Tsai is admittedly pro-vaccine, which Irving was well aware of. But Tsai might have underestimated just how deeply dug in Irving’s heels were, how long-standing his vaccine hesitancy is. But the Nets found out the hard way that trying to predict the mercurial guard is risky, as the Cavaliers and Celtics had already learned.

Every other Nets player got vaccinated before their Sept. 27 Media Day and ensuing San Diego-area training camp, leaving Irving as the lone holdout.

“[Tsai] laid it out that you needed to be vaccinated or you can’t play,” a source close to the situation said. “A number of players did not want to get vaccinated. They all decided to get vaccinated except Kyrie. … The thinking was the players would all blink.”

But rather than blink, Irving held a laser-focus on staying unvaccinated.

After Tsai hosted Irving and the other Nets at his La Jolla, Calif., estate during training camp, it became clear that the guard was steadfast in his refusal. And while sources close to both Irving and Durant stressed that Tsai never pressured any players to get vaccinated, the e-commerce billionaire did — at least initially — draw the line at allowing part-time players.

When Tsai decided the next month to bar Irving from playing road games — despite paying his salary — a source close to the situation said it wasn’t due to any personal feeling on vaccines but because he felt a part-time player would be bad for the team.

But the season began to unravel anyway. After watching his struggling team be decimated by injuries, Tsai did an about-face to let Irving play unvaccinated. He made his road debut on Jan. 5 at Indiana.

Nets owner Joe Tsai
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“My only religion is to win games and win the championship,” Tsai told The Post at the time. “That’s where we are.”

It’s clear the mandate change and Irving’s stance put an end to those title hopes. Sitting second in the East on Jan. 15, the Nets dropped 16 of 21 after Durant suffered a left knee injury. They fell to eighth by the time he returned six weeks later — and Tsai took action.

On Feb. 6, Irving said, “Anything can happen these next few days, the next week. Just crossing my fingers that something can come up either before All-Star break or even just after.” Two days later — with the Nets on an eight-game losing skid — they hired ex-New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson to lobby new Mayor Eric Adams about changing the mandate so Irving could play at home.

After the Nets had lacked the time or possibly the interest in lobbying de Blasio, financial records show they agreed to spend $18,000 a month on lobbying Adams for 18 months.

But the very same day they inked that contract, Harden spoke with general manager Sean Marks and then Tsai, requesting a trade.

Just over 48 hours later, Harden was gone to the 76ers, taking with him hopes of seeing that prolific Big 3 lead the Nets to a title.

Kyrie Irving
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But the mandates were still there, well over a month later.

“At this point, now it feels like somebody’s trying to make a statement or a point to flex their authority. But everybody out here is looking for attention, and that’s what I feel the mayor wants right now is some attention. He’ll figure it out soon. He better,” Durant said. “Now it just looks stupid.”

Adams eventually relented, changing the rules on March 24 allowing Irving to play home games despite being unvaccinated. But the Nets got swept out of the first round of the playoffs by Boston, in large part because they did not have enough time to gel as a team.

They may never get that time, with Durant requesting a trade. If the former MVP goes, it’s expected that Irving will as well.

Should that happen, the best team that never was can point back to a four-day span as where it all started to go wrong — and rue a one-line tweak in a city document that turned a potential title into a train wreck.

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Daily COVID cases fall below 1000-mark; Country reports 6 deaths

On Monday, the country recorded less than 1000 new COVID-19 cases, almost after a week. A total of 861 new cases and six deaths were reported in the last 24 hours. According to the Union Ministry of Family and Welfare, the daily positivity rate is at 0.32 percent. The active cases in the country stand at 11,058 which accounts for 0.03 percent of the total cases.

According to the reports, 929 COVID patients recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total number of recoveries in the country since the beginning of the pandemic to 4,25,03,383. The rate of recovery is 98.76 percent. Meanwhile, the death toll in the country rose to 5,21,691. As far as the COVID vaccination drive is concerned, a total of 1,85,74,18,827 so far.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry had permitted the precautionary dose of COVID vaccine for all adults from April 10. The precautionary dose will be available at the private vaccination centers for all 18+ adults. The announcement was made by the Union health ministry on Friday. “It has been decided that precaution dose of COVID vaccines will be made available to 18+ population group at private vaccination centers,” read the statement. 

To note, the largest countrywide vaccination drive started in January last year with healthcare workers getting inoculated in the first phase. The second phase of the COVID vaccination drive began on March 1 for people above 60 years, while the vaccination drive for all aged more than 45 years was launched on April 1, 2021.

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