On Friday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky appeared on Good Morning America, and made a statement that pissed off large swaths of the country: “The overwhelming number of [Covid] deaths — over 75 percent — occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so really these are people who …
Read More »RS Recommends: The Comfortable Face Masks You Won't Even Mind Wearing
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With offices opening back up and some venues requiring masks at live shows and events, having a reusable, comfortable face mask remains as important as ever, and that’s …
Read More »Neil Young on Concerts In the Covid Age: 'These Are Super Spreader Events'
After pulling out of Farm Aid earlier this month because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Neil Young elaborated on his concerns in a new op-ed that accused concert promoters of valuing profits over safety. “Garth Books and others like him have been responsible and pulled back from doing shows,” Young wrote …
Read More »California Music Venues Aim to Reopen by June 15th
Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that California could fully reopen on June 15th, a move that might allow for the state’s concert venues to resume business if certain conditions are met. With nearly a quarter of California’s adults fully vaccinated and the coronavirus infection rate dropping, Newsom said that — …
Read More »How Spring Break Hit Miami Beach Like a Perfect Storm
If a place could look like a hangover, Miami Beach would hit the mark. It’s early evening on Monday, March 22nd, and many of the spring breakers who did an indisputable number on Miami Beach’s Entertainment District over the weekend are, apparently, taking a much-needed nap. Police barricades and circling …
Read More »Steam Clean: Using a Steamer Can Help Kill Germs and Bacteria, but Can It Kill Covid?
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Steamers have always been sort of an unheralded tool in a person’s closet, an “if-you-know-you-know” type of device that gets a decent amount of use if you’re trying …
Read More »How Economist Emily Oster Ended Up at the Center of the Fight Over Schools Reopening
A year ago, schools across the country closed their doors in hopes of slowing the spread of a strange new virus. What happened next depended on a parent’s zip code, their income, the political persuasion of their state officials, and the relative power of their local teachers unions. In the …
Read More »New Jersey Gov: 'The Next Number of Weeks Are Going to Be Hell'
As the virus continues to kill Americans at a record clip, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy went on national television on Sunday morning and urged citizens not to get caught up in the euphoria of the coming vaccine, and to follow health officials’ guidelines because the coming weeks “are going …
Read More »White America: What More Can You Possibly Ask of Us?
There was a fleeting moment, in the beginning of this unprecedented global pandemic, when I was released from the gravity of my skin. Our country was quarantined, isolated, imagining the worst from an invisible enemy. In Seattle, everyone wore masks, myself included. The world had emptied, and for the first …
Read More »Watch Trump Advisor's Bonkers Rant Pushing COVID-19 Conspiracies
In an obvious attempt to deflect blame from President Trump’s dismal handling of the coronavirus pandemic in America, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro went on an extended rant on Friday, tossing out unproven conspiracy theories as if he were holding court in a QAnon forum. Navarro, a now-infamous, bomb-throwing …
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