Month: November 2020

Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison to begin 5-month sentence in the college admissions scandal – Fox News
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Mossimo Giannulli reports to prison to begin 5-month sentence in the college admissions scandal – Fox News

Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison to begin his five-month sentence on Thursday for his role in the college admissions scandal, officials said.  The fashion designer and husband of “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin, reported to a federal prison in Lompoc near Santa Barbara, Calif., a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson said. He’s expected to serve his full sentence. His time behind bars overlaps with his wife's, who began her two-month stay behind bars on Oct. 30 at a facility in Dublin, Calif. Giannulli, 57, was handed a five-month term in prison this past August after he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from $500,000 payments to scam mastermind William “Rick” Singer to get their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, recruited onto University of Southern California's crew te...
Jeremih in Critical Condition in the ICU From Coronavirus – Variety
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Jeremih in Critical Condition in the ICU From Coronavirus – Variety

Singer-rapper Jeremih is “still in ICU in critical condition,” his agent told Variety after news broke on Saturday that he had been hospitalized for COVID-19. “J was just pulled off the ventilator,” his agent said in a statement to Variety. “He’s still in ICU in critical condition. Please keep him in your prayers.” Jeremih, born Jeremy Phillip Felton, has been privately undergoing treatment in Chicago. Musicians and stars took to social media on Saturday to ask for prayers on his behalf. Rapper 50 Cent was the first to specify that his condition was related to COVID-19, sharing that Jeremih had been hospitalized in his native city. “Pray for my boy Jeremih. He’s not doing good. This COVID shit is real. He’s in the ICU in Chicago,” he wrote. Chance the Rapper also aske...
Dont Worry: Dog Walking Is Probably Not Going to Give You Covid-19 – Gizmodo
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Dont Worry: Dog Walking Is Probably Not Going to Give You Covid-19 – Gizmodo

Harley, a three-year-old Pug, getting ready for his duties as a therapy dog at a hospital in Mexico this past May.Photo: Claudio Cruz (Getty Images) A new fur-raising study about covid-19 is making the media waves, suggesting that walking your dog will raise your risk of catching the viral pandemic by a whopping 78%. But there’s plenty of reason not to take the study at face value, and your worry is better spent on other, more pressing risks. The research was published recently in the journal of Environmental Research by a team of scientists in Spain. They conducted an online survey of over 2,000 people in the country between April and May of this year, right around the time that Spain was facing its first wave of the pandemic and had enacted a series of restrictions on movement and...
We Need to Talk About That Danish Masks Dont Work Study – Lifehacker
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We Need to Talk About That Danish Masks Dont Work Study – Lifehacker

Graphic: Lifehacker, Photo: Shutterstock A recent study of mask wearing in Denmark is being shared as if it proves that masks don’t protect us. That’s not what the study actually says. I’ll get into the specifics below, but right now I’d like to point out a couple lines from the paper itself: The most important limitation is that the findings are inconclusive... and It is important to emphasize that this trial did not address the effects of masks as source control [protecting others from the wearer] or as protection in settings where social distancing and other public health measures are not in effect. So if you’re sharing this study to support your previously held opinion that masks are stupid and you don’t want to wear one, please stop. Now, let’s see what the study was actuall...
Coronavirus is ‘out of control’ in Alabama, warns health official – Fox News
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Coronavirus is ‘out of control’ in Alabama, warns health official – Fox News

The novel coronavirus is “out of control” in Alabama, warned a state health official this week.   Alabama has reported some 225,910 cases of COVID-19 to date, according to data from the state health department. The rolling daily average of new cases has increased over the past two weeks to 684, representing a 50% jump. Current estimates show that one in every 342 people in the state has tested positive for the virus in the past week alone.  “It’s out of control,” Dr. Donald Williamson, the president of the Alabama Hospital Association and former director of the state health agency, said during a news conference, according to a local news outlet. “Our ability to contain the virus has been lost.” "We have everything necessary to have a disaster between now and the end of December," Will...
Michael J. Fox enters second retirement due to declining health – New York Post
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Michael J. Fox enters second retirement due to declining health – New York Post

Michael J. Fox is cutting ties with the world of acting. “There is a time for everything, and my time of putting in a 12-hour workday, and memorizing seven pages of dialogue, is best behind me,” the Canadian-American actor, 59, revealed in his new book and fourth memoir, “No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality.” “At least for now … I enter a second retirement,” the “Family Ties” star continued. “That could change, because everything changes. But if this is the end of my acting career, so be it.” The decision follows Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 29, recently noticing symptoms of the disease including memory loss, delusions and dementia, cognitive declines which he writes he had “rarely contemplated before now, much less spoke of.” These...
Boosie Badazz Not Getting Foot Amputated After Shooting, Out of Hospital – TMZ
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Boosie Badazz Not Getting Foot Amputated After Shooting, Out of Hospital – TMZ

Exclusive Boosie Badazz went under the knife after getting shot in the leg, but surgeons didn't remove his foot ... and he's already home from the hospital. Sources close to Boosie tell TMZ ... he did NOT get his foot amputated -- contrary to reports -- but he did have a couple of surgeries for his gunshot wound. Our sources say Boosie had a procedure to remove bullet fragments, and he had some screws put in to make sure his foot properly heals. Boosie has diabetes, which led to speculation about potential amputation, but we're told the only medical decisions in relation to his diabetes had to do with his pre-surgery diet. Our sources say Boosie and his docs ha...
Chinas Covid-19 vaccine administered to a million people: Official – Times of India
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Chinas Covid-19 vaccine administered to a million people: Official – Times of India

BEIJING: A Covid-19 vaccine developed by a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical firm has been administered to about a million people under the government's emergency use scheme, the company's chairman said. “In terms of emergency use, the vaccines were applied to nearly a million people and there has not been a single case of a serious adverse event. People have had only mild symptoms,” Liu Jingzhen, chairman of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm), said. “Until now, all our progress, from research to clinical trials to production and emergency use, we have been leading the world,” Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post on Thursday quoted Liu as saying to a Chinese digital media publication. His comments came amid criticism that Chinese firms have not publicised the clin...