CDC urges senior citizens to stay home and avoid face-to-face contact as coronavirus spreads

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are advising senior citizens at risk of contracting coronavirus to stay home and avoid in-person interaction. In a call to reporters on Tuesday, Dr Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said the elderly are most at risk because of their ages … Read more

Joe Biden WINS Virginia with Bernie Sanders safely taking Vermont 

JOE BIDEN Age on Inauguration Day 2021: 78 Entered race: April 25, 2019 Career: No current role. A University of Delaware and Syracuse Law graduate, he was first elected to Newcastle City Council in 1969, then won upset election to Senate in 1972, aged 29. Was talked out of quitting before being sworn in when … Read more

Meghan Markle ‘was a smiling face in a dull institution’, says author Dame Hilary Mantel

Meghan Markle ‘was a smiling face in a dull institution’ and ‘too good to be true’ for the monarchy, according to novelist Dame Hilary Mantel.   The British Booker Prize-winning author, 67, spoke with Harper’s Bazaar to celebrate the publication of the final installment of her bestselling Tudor trilogy, The Mirror & the Light. Photographed at Hampton Court Palace, the … Read more

Married At First Sight: Koala mattress advert mocks the show and ‘cheating pile of trash’ stars

‘The best piece of TV advertising’: Married At First Sight fans go wild as Koala mattress advert mocks the show and takes aim at ‘cheating trash’ stars By Joshua Fox For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:59 GMT, 3 March 2020 | Updated: 00:05 GMT, 4 March 2020 A spoof advert from mattress brand Koala sent … Read more

Oxford don barred from speaking at feminist history event as fallout over her ‘transphobic’ remarks

Oxford don Selina Todd been BARRED from speaking at a feminist history event as fallout over her ‘transphobic’ remarks continues Modern History professor Selina Todd allegedly made ‘transphobic’ remarks She was ‘no platformed’ at Oxford event about the women’s liberation movement Professor Todd had been accompanied to lectures by the ‘two big burly guys’  By Josh White … Read more

How Americans are preparing for coronavirus: More than 40% have ‘improved personal hygiene’

The majority of Americans are taking action to avoid contracting coronavirus, a new YouGov survey has found. Adults in the US say that they are ‘improving personal hygiene’, avoiding crowded places and refraining from touching as many objects in public as possible. Health officials have encouraged  hands, avoiding crowded places for older people but have … Read more

Google CANCELS one of its biggest annual events amid fears over the spread of coronavirus

Google is the latest tech company to scrap major event plans as fears over the spread of coronavirus escalate. The tech giant announced that its annual in-person I/O conference in San Francisco, its biggest event of the year, is being cancelled more than two months before it’s slated to take place.  ‘Due to concerns around the … Read more

Global supply of masks, gloves and gowns is ‘rapidly depleting’ WHO says

Supplies of face masks and other protective equipment against the coronavirus are ‘rapidly depleting’ around the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday.  ‘Shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and health care workers dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients,’ said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO.  An estimated 89 million masks, 1.6 … Read more

Calling overweight people fat or lazy must stop ‘to fight against the obesity epidemic’

Calling overweight people fat or lazy must stop because stigma is blocking the fight against the obesity epidemic, experts have said. A statement made by 100 health professionals worldwide said prejudice against overweight people can cause both physical and mental harm. The ‘social exclusion’ faced by people with obesity is similar to that of diseases in the … Read more