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White House Correspondents Dinner Returns for First Time in Two Years
The 2022 White House Correspondents Dinner returned for the first time in two years, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Fauci: Delta Variant is ‘Greatest Threat' to Eliminating COVID in U.S.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on Tuesday that the Delta variant is more contagious and causes more severe disease than others. In the last two weeks, the prevalence of cases resulting from it has doubled to just over 20%.
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GOP Aims to Revive Fauci Attacks After Email Trove Released
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic. He’s been lionized by the left and he’s been villainized by the right. And with the recent release of a trove of Fauci’s emails, Republicans’ political attacks on the top government infectious-diseases expert have gone into overdrive.
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‘SNL' Mocks CDC Guidelines, Host Keegan-Michael Key Fights The Muppets
In an effort to educate the public on the current climate of the coronavirus pandemic, Kate McKinnon reprised her role as Dr. Anthony Fauci to deliver some convoluted CDC directives. Over the past couple of months, the CDC has released a number of guidelines pertaining to vaccinations and mask-wearing that many Americans interpret as confusing and futile. McKinnon’s Fauci,...
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Fauci and GOP Rep. Jim Jordan Have Heated Exchange Over COVID-19 Precautions
On Thursday during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on safely ending the pandemic, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan pushed Dr. Anthony Fauci to be more specific about when Americans will “get their freedom back.” Fauci responded that Jordan was making this a personal thing. “I look at it as a public health measure to prevent people from dying and going to...
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White House: 1 in 4 American Adults Now Fully Vaccinated
In a White House briefing on Monday, the COVID-19 task force noted that nearly 1 in 3 Americans have at least one shot and that they’re seeing some peaks in cases among 18-24-year-olds.
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6 To Know: Heat Brings Back Fans With Help of COVID-Sniffing Dogs, Vaccine Town Hall with Fauci
It’s Thursday, Jan. 28th, and NBC 6 has your top news stories of the day. Weather-wise, expect a drop in humidity and gusty winds as a cold front bears down on the region. Read your full forecast here, or scroll all the way down. Here are your six things to know. For the first time in months, the Miami Heat…