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Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have joined forces in a bizarre lawsuit that accuses The Washington Post, the BBC, the Associated Press, and Reuters of violating 19th-century antitrust laws by refusing to credit bogus COVID-19 conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine misinformation. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the most prominent anti-vaxxers and the …

There’s a new form of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid. It’s called XBB.1.5 —and it’s nasty. XBB.1.5, otherwise known as “Kraken,” is more contagious than previous subvariants of the Omicron variant of the virus and also has more potential to evade our antibodies from vaccines and past infection. All …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The efficacy of a good face mask has been well-proven to help prevent the spread of the Covid, but as cases continue to persist across the country (not …

Russian trolls are taking advantage of the free-for-all on far-right social media apps to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda —and they were particularly successful when impersonating fans of MAGA musician Kid Rock. Those conclusions are from a new report by the social media tracking firm Graphika and Stanford University’s Internet Observatory. The …

Twitter has stopped enforcing its Covid misinformation policy, designed to prevent the spread of harmful false narratives about the pandemic. This has increased simmering concerns that the platform, already an echo chamber for many users, could become a misinformation super-spreader.Users are already testing the waters to see what kind of …

As he prepares to exit the government role he has occupied for decades as well as his position as Chief White House medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged the possibility that Covid-19 originated in a lab while stating that the evidence still points to a natural origin of the virus. …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. According to a study conducted by the NIH (National Institutes of Health),the average smartphone has 17,032 germs on its surface, some of which could carry disease. Combine that …

Ice Cube confirmed he blew the chance at a $9 million movie paycheck because he refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine, during a recent interview on the “Million Dollaz Worth of Game” podcast. Last October, Ice Cube dropped out of the comedy Oh Hell No, where he was set to …

Black Panther star Letitia Wright spoke about the “traumatic” injury she suffered while filming Wakanda Forever, but did not clear up lingering questions over her Covid-19 vaccination status. A new Variety cover story on Wakanda Forever offers some fresh insight into a particularly intense period for the film, which was …

COVID. Monkeypox. The old-fashioned flu. We’re living in a new era of overlapping viral outbreaks. But as frightening as these diseases might be, at least there are safe, effective and readily-available vaccines for each of them—even if the first COVID vaccines did take a year of frantic work. There’s at …