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Man Performs Cringey Vaccination Rap at City Council Meeting

Man Performs Cringey Vaccination Rap at City Council Meeting

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that astonishingly both men and women looked more attractive to study participants when most of their face was obscured by a mask.

Study: Face Masks Make People Look More Attractive

By Victor Tangermann

A group of 270 doctors and educators have signed a letter calling on Spotify to start moderating misinformation, particularly on the Joe Rogan Experience.

Hundreds of Medical Experts Sign Letter Condemning Joe Rogan

By Victor Tangermann

According to data released by the CDC, life expectancy in the US has dropped by 1.8 years from 2019 to 2020, a massive drop.

American Life Expectancy Crashes by Almost Two Years

By Victor Tangermann

At least 132 SpaceX employees have tested positive for COVD-19 at the company's factory in Hawthorne, California, the Los Angeles Times reports.

There’s a Huge “Active Outbreak” of COVID-19 at SpaceX HQ

By Victor Tangermann

The body of a deceased cargo ship captain spent six months in the ship's walk-in freezer with 13 countries refusing to take care of it.

Cargo Ship Spent Months With Captain’s Corpse in Walk-in Freezer

By Victor Tangermann

A retired professor of anatomy is under fire for performing an autopsy to a live audience, with members paying up to $500 to attend the macabre event.

Organizers Defend $500 Pay-Per-View Autopsy

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese authorities are about to test blood samples from Wuhan to investigate where and when the first COVID-19 outbreaks began.

Chinese Authorities Are Testing Thousands of Blood Samples From Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

Two men spent 29 days lost at sea, only to be rescued 250 miles off the coast of Papua New Guinea. To them it was a "nice break" fro COVID.

Man Lost at Sea for 30 Days Says It Was a “Nice Break” From Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

A new documentary sheds light on the abuse top infectious diseases specialist Anthony Fauci has had to endure since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci Says People Are Threatening His Wife and Daughters With Violence

By Victor Tangermann

Jeffrey Smith, the man whose wife sued a hospital to force it to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin and kicked off a messy legal fight, recently died.

Wife Sues Hospital to Treat Husband With Ivermectin, Then Husband Dies

By Dan Robitzski

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.

Hospital Says It Won’t Do Organ Transplants on Unvaccinated People

By Dan Robitzski

Pharmaceutical company Merck claims its new COVID-19 pill called molnupiravir can reduce the risk of hospitalization and even death by half.

Company Claims Pill Cuts Risk of Dying of COVID-19 in Half

By Victor Tangermann

Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.

COVID Patients Tell Doctor Coronavirus Is Fake, Then All Die

By Dan Robitzski

A number of misguided residents in Edson, Alberta, a small Canadian town, organized a "COVID party" intended to infect as many guests as possible.

Several People in ICU After Attending “COVID Party”

By Victor Tangermann

Rapper Nicki Minaj made some rather odd and infuriatingly misleading comments on Twitter earlier this week, but Fauci set the record straight.

Fauci: “No Evidence” That COVID Vaccine Injured Nicki Minaj’s Cousin’s Friend’s Testicles

By Victor Tangermann

Hugh Laurie, actor best known from hit TV drama "House," took to Twitter today to absolutely roast the anti-vaccination movement.

Hugh Laurie, Who Played Dr. House, Appears to Have Just Brutally Roasted Anti-Vaxxers

By Victor Tangermann

A man's nose ran for nine months before he realized he was leaking brain fluid after a particularly aggressive nasal swab COVID test.

COVID Test Made Man’s Head Leak Cerebrospinal Fluid for Nine Months

By Dan Robitzski

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus extended the booster shot moratorium and called out rich countries for hoarding their COVID-19 vaccines.

WHO Chief “Appalled” By Rich Countries Hoarding COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

The doctor at a county jail in Arkansas was giving inmates the dangerous drug ivermectin, an unproven COVID treatment, without their knowledge or consent.

Inmates Treated With Ivermectin Without Their Knowledge

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent podcaster Joe Rogan has tested positive for the coronavirus and is "throwing the kitchen sink" at the virus to treat the disease.

Joe Rogan’s Fans Are Shredding Him for Being a Moron About COVID

By Victor Tangermann

A 24-year-old woman from Illinois was busted for faking the vaccination card she used to enter the state of Hawaii on August 23 — after misspelling Moderna.

Idiot Anti-Vaxxer Misspells “Moderna” on Falsified Vaccine Card

By Victor Tangermann

the laboratory services company hVivo has now grown enough of the delta variant of the coronavirus to start infecting human volunteers in a challenge trial.

Researchers Are About to Infect Humans With Home-Grown COVID Strain

By Dan Robitzski

Rocket companies are out of liquid oxygen, a cryogenic oxidizer used to propel rockets into orbit, because hospitals need it to treat COVID patients.

SpaceX Doesn’t Have Enough Rocket Fuel Because COVID Patients Need It to Breathe

By Victor Tangermann

The coronavirus pandemic is once again killing over 1,000 people in the United States every single day, a grim reminder that the pandemic is still raging.

COVID Is Once Again Killing More Than 1,000 Americans Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.

Why You Might Want an mRNA Booster Shot, In One Simple Graphic

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccine misinformation on TikTok is spreading like, well, something viral.

How Are These Horrible Vaccine TikToks Fooling So Many People?

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.

Pharmacist Busted for Selling Real COVID Vaccine Cards to Anti-Vaxxers

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese State News Agency Floods Social Media With Anti-America COVID Memes

Chinese State News Agency Floods Social Media With Anti-America COVID Memes

By Victor Tangermann

Hollywood A-lister Tom Hanks' lost cause of a son Chet decided to light up his own dumpster fire and wade into the deranged anti-vaccine discussion.

Tom Hanks’ Idiot Son Launches Into Deranged Anti-Vaccine Rant

By Victor Tangermann

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.

Pfizer and Moderna Hike the Price of COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.

Preliminary Research Explains Why the Delta Variant Is So Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

The total number of COVID-19 cases among athletes and staff at the Olympic Games in Tokyo rose to 71, the Associated Press reports.

Number of COVID Cases Linked to Tokyo Olympics Spikes to 71

By Victor Tangermann

Israel is giving some citizens with weak immune systems a third Pfizer vaccine, making them the first COVID booster shots anywhere in the world.

Israel Begins Administering World’s First COVID Booster Shots

By Dan Robitzski

The Teletubbies are supposedly vaccinated against the coronavirus, but something is a little bit off about their paperwork.

There’s Something Fishy About the Teletubbies’ Vaccination Cards

By Dan Robitzski

Police in India broke up an elaborate ring of scammers who injected thousands with saline water instead of the coronavirus vaccine.

Scammers Inject Thousands of People With Fake Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

We may never be able to debunk the undying hypothesis that the coronavirus somehow escaped from a lab because it's technically unfalsifiable.

The Lab Leak Theory Is a Tragic Hall of Mirrors That’ll Probably Never Have a Satisfying Answer

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new analysis, early genetic sequences linked to the initial outbreaks of the coronavirus in Wuhan were mysteriously deleted.

Scientist Says Early Chinese COVID Data Was Mysteriously Deleted

By Victor Tangermann

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.

Texas Hospital Fires Over 150 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

By Dan Robitzski

The UK decided to delay lifting its coronavirus restrictions by another four weeks as the delta variant continues to spread.

UK Delays Reopening Over Alarming Spread of Delta COVID Variant

By Dan Robitzski

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.

International Vaccine Program Still Struggling After Rich Countries Hoard Shots

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

By Dan Robitzski

Royal Caribbean's first cruise after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns already has a coronavirus outbreak after two passengers tested positive.

The First Cruise Ship Since the Pandemic Already Has a COVID Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.

There’s a Large New Coronavirus Outbreak in China

By Victor Tangermann

Author and conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf has been suspended indefinitely from Twitter after spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on the platform.

Twitter Bans Prominent Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Theorist

By Victor Tangermann

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including chlamydia and gonorrhea could soon spike as the COVID-19 pandemic winds down.

Doctors Fear Huge Spike in STIs After Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

Anthony Fauci doesn't endorse the lab leak hypothesis, but he does want to know why workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized.

Fauci Wants To Know Why Three Virus Researchers in Wuhan Got Sick

By Dan Robitzski

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci still isn't ruling out the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab.

Fauci Says It’s Unlikely But Possible That COVID Virus Leaked From Lab

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials are frustrated by the growing number of US researchers and officials calling for another investigation into how the pandemic began.

China Is Furious That Americans Are Considering the Lab Leak Hypothesis

By Dan Robitzski

As COVID-19 vaccine supply outweights domestic demand in the US, travelers are coming to the country to grab some of the extras.

Wealthy Travelers Are Flocking to America for Precious COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

India's Health Ministry has declared a mucormycosis epidemic after the country reported over 11,000 cases of the fungal infection.

India Reports More Than 11,000 Cases of Brain-Eating Fungus

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time in decades, a Canadian soldier has been charged with mutiny for refusing to help with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Canada Charges Soldier With Mutiny for Refusing to Distribute COVID Vaccines

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the unusual implication that China released the coronavirus from a lab as an act of aggression.

The New Head of NASA Says COVID May Have Leaked From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-disclosed intelligence report reveals that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized right before the pandemic began.

Wuhan Lab Workers Were Hospitalized Right Before the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found a new novel canine coronavirus discovered in a child who was hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia two years ago.

Scientists Say a New Coronavirus Jumped From Dogs to Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.

Doctors Hack Virus to Make Tumors Kill Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

The largest union of registered nurses in the US have condemned the CDC for ditching all mask recommendations for those who have been fully vaccinated.

The Country’s Largest Nurses Union Says the CDC’s New Mask Rules Are Terrible

By Victor Tangermann

Cases of the brain-eating "black fungus" found in COVID-19 survivors and patients in India are now popping up in Pakistan as well.

Deadly Brain-Eating Fungus Outbreak Spreads Beyond India

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in India have found dozens of dead bodies floating in the Ganges River over the past few days, likely a sign of its ongoing coronavirus surge.

Dozens of Bodies Found in Indian River

By Dan Robitzski

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

Small Country Claims to Have Vaccinated 108 Percent of Population

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers were able to demonstrate that COVID-19 can lead to long-term erectile dysfunction, another sign that symptoms can last for a long time.

COVID Linked to Long-Term Erectile Dysfunction

By Victor Tangermann