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Less than one week after canceling the remaining dates of his 2021 stadium tour, Garth Brooks is already making plans for touring safely in the pandemic era. The Country Music Hall of Fame member discussed the decision and what his touring future will look like in Monday’s episode of his …

A few days after Phil Valentine announced he had tested positive for Covid-19 on July 11th, the conservative talk-radio host wrote on Facebook that he was “doing my patriotic duty for natural herd immunity.” Valentine, whose nationally syndicated Phil Valentine Show aired on 100 stations from 2007 to 2019, had …

Less than 24 hours after Mississippi‘s Republican Gov. Tate Reeves tried to dismiss the threat that Covid-19 poses to children, an eighth-grader in the state died from complications due to the virus. “If you look at those individuals under the age of 12, what you find is that it is …

Celine Dion has announced that the remaining North American tour dates on her Courage World Tour — originally rescheduled to August 16th through September 24th, 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic — have once again been rescheduled to March 9th through April 22nd, 2022. “I know how frustrating it is …

On Tuesday, the White House stated that Olivia Rodrigo would be meeting with President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci in Washington, D.C., to participate in a video campaign on the importance of young people getting vaccinated against Covid-19. Rolling Stone has reached out to representatives for Rodrigo for further …

President Joe Biden promised on the campaign trail that if elected, he would implement a massive federal response to address the coronavirus pandemic, including free testing and an aggressive vaccine rollout. The effort is to start almost immediately Wednesday, as in his first hours in office will include executive orders …

UPDATE 2 (12/11): The FDA has authorized the emergency use of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for select Americans to receive the first of two doses imminently. Earlier on Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Good Morning Americathat “we could be seeing people [in the U.S.] …

A new vaccine developed by Oxford University and manufactured by AstraZeneca has shown to be up to 90% effective in preventing Covid-19, according to an interim analysis of trials in the U.K. and Brazil. The results showed that the vaccine’s efficacy depended on the dosing regimen. The one that showed …

Lame-duck President Donald Trump spoke to the nation on Friday afternoon, his first public comments since Joe Biden was projected the winner of the 2020 presidential race. Trump’s remarks, made from the White House’s Rose garden, were typical: he overstated his administration’s role in the recent positive news on a …

Last week on the TV’s Top 5 podcast, Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman dropped some numbers that made hosts Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg, two jaded, longtime television writers, stop in their tracks. As talk turned to the strange new world of Covid-19, Goldberg asked how much Kurtzman’s budget had …