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Joe Rogan Posts Negative COVID Test

Podcaster only just revealed diagnosis Wednesday

(Newser) - Days after revealing he'd tested positive for COVID-19, Joe Rogan posted a negative test result to his Instagram Friday. "Tested negative today! Thanks for all the kind wishes!" the podcaster wrote along with a photo of a digital readout. Just the previous Wednesday, the Joe Rogan Experience...

Men With Zip Ties Confront Principal Who Quarantined Boy

Father and cohorts threaten 'citizen's arrest'

(Newser) - An Arizona elementary school principal says she was confronted by a father and two other men after enforcing county rules on quarantining students who've potentially been exposed to COVID. Per NBC News , Diane Vargo, principal at Mesquite Elementary School in Tucson, says the father showed up with his son...

Hospitalized With COVID, De La Hoya Calls Off Fight

Boxer was to return to the ring next week after 13 years

(Newser) - Oscar De La Hoya says he's fully vaccinated and has been taking care of himself, training for a comeback fight next week. Still, he contracted the coronavirus, and there will be no fight, the boxing great tweeted Friday. De La Hoya is in the hospital with a case of...

US Plan for Booster Shots Hits a Roadblock

Federal authorities say it may be limited at first only to certain Pfizer recipients

(Newser) - Last month, the White House pushed a plan to start doling out COVID booster shots in September. The new message surfacing: Not so fast. The New York Times reports that the proposal to start administering the extra shots on September 20 will be dramatically scaled back. At best, only people...

North Korea Turns Down the Vaccines It's Offered

Analysts suspect Kim is holding out for Pfizer

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign in "our style" after he turned down some foreign COVID-19 vaccines offered via the UN-backed immunization program. During a Politburo meeting Thursday, Kim said officials must "bear in mind that tightening epidemic prevention...

Mu Variant Is Now a 'Variant of Interest'

Fauci says it's not an 'immediate threat'

(Newser) - The "mu" coronavirus variant is now officially a "variant of interest"—and scientists naming COVID variants are now halfway through the Greek alphabet. The mu variant, also known as B.1.1621, was given the designation this week by the World Health Organization. The WHO warned that...

Doctors, Pharmacists: Everyone Stop Using Ivermectin Now

AMA wants the prescriptions to stop

(Newser) - The American Medical Association has something to say about people taking ivermectin . And what they have to say, essentially, is knock it off, you’re going to get hurt. Ivermectin can be prescribed for humans for some problems—problems that have nothing to do with COVID. The CDC and FDA...

Inmates Say They Were Told Ivermectin Was 'Vitamins'

3 inmates at Washington County jail in Arkansas make the claim

(Newser) - Several inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail said they weren't told a medication they were given to treat COVID-19 was actually an anti-parasite drug that federal health officials have warned should not be used to treat the coronavirus. Three inmates at the Washington County jail told the AP they...

GM Will Idle Most Plants in North America

Chip shortage will force a slowdown of at least a week at almost all factories

(Newser) - Some GM trucks are being partially built and stored, and some just aren’t getting built at all. The chip shortage that has been affecting electronics of all sorts since the beginning of the year is affecting auto production again, with GM announcing that it will idle almost all of...

Report: US Has Wasted 15M Vaccine Doses Since March

Millions more are nearing expiry date

(Newser) - With many countries around the world crying out for COVID vaccines, the US has wasted a staggering number of them. NBC reports that according to data released this week, state governments and pharmacies have thrown away more than 15 million doses since March 1, and since the data is self-reported...

District Tightens Rule After Chiropractor Signs 500 Mask Exemptions

He signed more than 500 exemptions for students in Sarasota County

(Newser) - Florida's Sarasota County School District tightened the rules on medical exemptions to a mask mandate after finding that around a third of exemption forms turned in district-wide had been signed by one chiropractor. An updated form issued this week said the forms can only be signed by medical doctors,...

Washington Nationals VP Quits Over Vaccine Mandate

Bob Boone says he is 'unfortunately' parting ways with team

(Newser) - The Washington Nationals has become the first Major League Baseball team to part ways with employees over a COVID vaccine mandate. Team sources have confirmed to ESPN that vice president Bob Boone has told the Nationals he will resign instead of complying. Sources tell the Athletic that eight scouts have...

Study: Vaccines Are 'Doing What They Are Designed to Do'

People with breakthrough infections less likely to be hospitalized or suffer long-haul COVID

(Newser) - The more infectious delta variant has complicated the battle against COVID-19, but vaccines are still doing their job, researchers say. A large study from the UK released Wednesday found that "breakthrough" infections among vaccinated people remain rare, and vaccinated people who do become infected are twice as likely to...

Joe Rogan Has COVID


Joe Rogan
Has COVID
Sep 2, 2021 1:04 AM CDT

Joe Rogan Has COVID

It's not clear whether the podcast host is vaccinated

(Newser) - Joe Rogan, the influential podcaster who went from interviewing an early predicter of just how bad the pandemic would get to questioning the importance of coronavirus vaccines , now has COVID-19. Rogan, one of the highest paid podcasters in the world for his Joe Rogan Experience on Spotify, announced the news...

School District Shuts Briefly After COVID Kills 2 Teachers

Closure will allow for isolation and recovery, Texas superintendent says

(Newser) - A Central Texas school district closed its schools until after the Labor Day holiday Tuesday after two teachers died last week of COVID-19. Connally Independent School District officials closed its five suburban Waco schools for the rest of the week after the COVID-19 death on Saturday of Natalia Chansler, 41,...

Study: Even Mild COVID Can Lead to Kidney Problems Later

New paper used data from more than 1M veterans

(Newser) - The longer we live with the COVID pandemic, the more we learn. And plenty of what we learn is far from encouraging. The latest finding is that COVID survivors are at greater risk of kidney damage. The study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology took...

FDA Is Losing 2 of Its Vaccine Leaders

Head of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review and her deputy say they're out

(Newser) - Job openings have been at record levels this summer. Add two more openings to the tally. Two high-profile FDA vaccine regulators will depart the agency this fall, and the New York Times gives two points of context: One, that their exit could throw a wrench into the process of deciding...

Judge Who Ordered Man to Get Vaccine Takes It Back

Judge: Not my job to 'teach you to be a better person'

(Newser) - A Cincinnati judge has rescinded his order that a man get vaccinated as part of his probation requirements. It wasn’t the only condition Chris Wagner set for Brandon Rutherford, 21, who was sentenced to two years’ probation for possession of fentanyl. And Rutherford didn’t immediately object, either. But...

Nike Office Staff Told 'Do Not Work' for a Week

Benefit doesn't extend to retail store employees, though

(Newser) - Keeping up with the office grind during a pandemic is hard—even the at-home version. People who work at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, are in the middle of a reprieve, the Oregonian reports. Matt Marrazzo, a senior manager with Nike, announced the week off on LinkedIn late...

Despite Court Ruling, DeSantis Punishes School Boards
Florida's Mask Fight
Takes a New Turn
the rundown
Aug 31, 2021 8:42 AM CDT

Florida's Mask Fight Takes a New Turn

State punishes districts over mandates despite court ruling

(Newser) - The mask fight in Florida just managed to escalate. On Monday, the state announced it would financially punish two school districts for imposing mask mandates even though a court ruled Gov. Ron DeSantis had no right to do that, reports Politico . State Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran said he would withhold...

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