Anthony Fauci

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he spoke to SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell and was told not to worry about owner Elon Musk’s politicization on Twitter.Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Billionaire Elon Musk owns SpaceX, one of the most important private partners the U.S. has for its ongoing space endeavors. Musk also owns Twitter, one of the world’s most important platforms for online discourse. Unfortunately, the world’s richest man is also becoming one of the world’s most polarizing figures thanks to the shitshow the blue…

Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle on stage in a surreptitiously recorded video at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday night.Gif: Twitter / Cleo PatrAElon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco on Sunday night after he was invited onstage by comedian Dave Chappelle. And the footage is pretty rough, even if you don’t particularly like Musk.“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle said…

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday will give what is expected to be his last public briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic as White House chief medical advisor.Fauci is leaving the post in December, after nearly three years as the public face of the U.S. response to the pandemic.Fauci is expected to encourage people to get their Covid boosters and flu shots as respiratory illnesses are spiking. Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday will give what is expected to be his last public briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic as White House chief…

NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci addresses the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, January 21, 2021.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersDr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday will give what is expected to be his last public briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic as the White House chief medical advisor.Fauci announced earlier this year that he will step down in December after serving as the public face of the United States' coronavirus pandemic response for more than two years.He…

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman each pleaded guilty to a felony charge of telecommunications fraud in Ohio on Monday. The two right-wing hacks were previously indicted on numerous counts of fraud and bribery by the Cuyahoga County prosecutor over scam robocalls made in Ohio ahead of the 2020 election. The calls targeted phone numbers in predominantly Black neighborhoods and attempted to dissuade mail-in voting.Specifically, the pre-recorded calls falsely claimed that voting by mail would give personal data to the police, debt…

A laboratory technician places human blood samples on an automated testing line at the Maccabi Health Services HMO central laboratory January 22, 2006 in Nes Tsiona which is located in central Israel.Photo: David Silverman (Getty Images)Blood testing huckster and former Arrayit president Mark Schena has been convicted in a covid-19 and allergy test scheme that allegedly resulted in nearly $80 million worth of fraudulent claims. Schena, who was convicted on five separate charges, could potentially spend decades in prison,…

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite-Pool (Getty Images)Long-time public health official Anthony Fauci is set to retire from government soon. Fauci said Monday that he will leave his current roles as an advisor to the White House and a leading official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) come this December.The 81-year-old Fauci has been open about his plans to exit the stage sooner rather than later. As recently as July, Fauci stated that he would retire before the end of President Biden’s first…

Image: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)The race to one of medicine’s elusive goals—auniversal flu vaccine—is heating up. On Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health announced the phase I clinical trial of one such potential candidate, which will involve up to 100 adult volunteers. In early experiments, the vaccine appeared to protect animals exposed to fatal doses of multiple influenza strains.The vaccine candidate is known as BPL-1357 and is being developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…

Anthony Fauci leaving after the daily briefing of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in the James Brady Briefing Room on April 10, 2020.Image: Alex Wong (Getty Images)Anthony Fauci, perhaps the most well-known public health figure in America, has contacted covid-19. Health officials said Wednesday afternoon that the 81-year-old Fauci tested positive for the coronavirus, reportedly for the first time. He’s said to be experiencing mild symptoms currently.Fauci is the long-time director of the National Institute of…

“We are dealing here with an infection of the mucous membrane, i.e., in the nose and the throat and then later the lungs," he said on Episode 62 of Das Coronavirus-Update, the podcast launched by broadcaster NDR in March 2020 that helped make Drosten a household name in Germany. “The mucous membranes already have their own special local immune system. With the current vaccines, which are more likely to be injected into the muscle, you don’t reach this local immune system so well." As a result, the vaccines “probably…