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Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Gets a Go From FDA, First Emergency Shipments Heading To Healthcare Facilities
The U.S. is getting closer to widespread distribution of vaccines for COVID-19, following the FDA’s emergency use authorization on Friday of the one developed by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech. The FDA’s decision clears the way for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to start being distributed across the country for people 16 years and older, and makes…
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White House Tells FDA Chief to Authorize Coronavirus Vaccine or Resign for Reasons That Make No Sense
Apparently, the White House chief of staff told the head of the Food and Drug Administration to grant authorization to a coronavirus vaccine by Friday or submit his resignation. I guess they think speeding up the process is totally the move that will build up public trust in the vaccine’s safety. The thing is, according…
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Black ER Doctor Says an Arizona Hospital Sidelined Him After He Tweeted About a Lack of Hospital Beds
Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency-medicine physician who has been outspoken about the dire conditions in American hospitals due to the coronavirus pandemic, says he was barred from returning to work at Yuma Regional Medical Center in Arizona after tweeting about shortages in hospital beds last month. According to Gilman, the healthcare staffing company he works…
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The Root's Clapback Mailbag: Empathy for the Devil
Please allow me to introduce myselfI’m a bag of white hot hateI’ve been around for four long yearsYou can read me every Friday I answer emails, DMs and tweetstrying to help you understand raceAnd when you call me the n-wordI don’t fly into a rage Pleased to meet youCan you guess who I am?Here’s a…
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Auntie Unfiltered Talks Holiday Cheer With Niecy Nash
Hey nieces and nephews! Can you believe we are just two weeks away from Christmas? Three weeks away from the new year? What the hell is time and what the fuck is happening here? The year 2020 has been on one, literally and figuratively, and we have been coasting along with it, trying not to…
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Euphoria and Colman Domingo Delivered the Best Phone Call Scene I've Ever Seen, and I Still Can't Get It Out of My Head
So, during my conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates earlier this week, he mentioned that he wants his work to “haunt” those who read it, where (paraphrasing) it sticks in their heads and they can’t extract it. I’ve had similar conversations with other writers—and others across the creative spectrum—and this feeling is universal among them. Us, I…
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Time Honors Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as 'Person of Year'
Time has selected its Person of the Year for 2020: President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Time says its decision to select the two leaders, who were recently victorious in an election that Donald Trump continues to deny the reality of, is about the hope for common ground that their partnership offers Americans…
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Friday Actor and 'Gentle Giant' Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Dead at 62 After Experiencing COVID-19 Symptoms
Tommy “Tiny” Lister, best-known for portraying “Deebo” in F. Gary Gray’s directorial debut Friday, has died at the age of 62, per TMZ. An official cause of death has not been determined. TMZ further reported: A release from The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department says friends and business associates of Lister became worried Thursday when they…
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House Rep. James Clyburn Says CDC Official's Testimony Alleges Political Interference
Testimony from an official at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention alleges that multiple instances of political interference may have occurred in the department. Are you shocked? I’m not shocked. NBC News reports that Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), chairman of the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, wrote a letter to Health and…