Prince who? Americans shown this photo of Harry mistake him for a country singer

It has all the makings of an identity crisis. To some, he is a wanted criminal. Others reckon he is in the Trump clan. There are even those who are convinced he is a country and western singer, a TV newsreader or a Hollywood actor. While Prince Harry has ditched his Royal duties to build … Read more

A third of Americans now know somebody who has died of COVID-19, poll finds 

A third of Americans now know somebody who has died of COVID-19 – TWICE as many as had lost a friend, family member or acquaintance to the virus this summer, poll finds A new poll has found that 33% of U.S adults have lost a family member, a friend or an acquaintance to COVID-19 This … Read more

Nearly 7,000 Americans have had bad reactions to COVID vaccines – but fewer than 10% were ‘serious’

Thousands of Americans have experienced bad reactions after receiving coronavirus vaccines, a new report finds. Nearly 7,000 people had an ‘adverse event’ after being given either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna shot, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Friday.  However, fewer than 10 percent of patients had a reaction like anaphylatic … Read more

One in four Americans say there were unable to get a coronavirus test when they wanted to

About one quarter of Americans say they could not get a coronavirus test when they wanted, a new survey finds. Conducted by STAT News and The Harris Poll, 24 percent of respondents said they were unable to get tested for COVID-19 for various reasons. The most common reason was that the wait was too long, … Read more

More than 4 million Americans flew for the President’s Day holiday weekend

Millions of Americans traveled for President’s Day weekend despite warnings from health experts to avoid taking to the skies. New data from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows that 4.03 million people passed threw airport security checkpoints between Thursday and Sunday. On Friday alone, a total of 1.15 million people took flights. These are the … Read more

Bill Gates’ daughter, Jennifer, 24, joins the 11% of Americans who’ve had COVID-19 vaccine

US reports the lowest number of new weekly COVID cases since OCTOBER as Bill Gates’ daughter Jennifer, 24, joins the 11% of Americans who’ve had their first vaccine dose and jokes ‘it did not implant my genius father into my brain’ There were just over 650,000 new COVID-19 infections reported in the US in the … Read more

Johnson & Johnson’s CEO says Americans may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 every year

A COVID shot every year? Johnson & Johnson’s CEO says Americans will need to be vaccinated every season for the next several years if the virus keeps mutating Johnson & Johnson’s CEO Alex Gorsky discussed how the coronavirus will be able to mutate further if it continues to spread  Should this happen, Gorsky said it’s … Read more

More than half of Americans say Trump should be convicted and barred from ever holding office again

More than half of Americans now say they support the Senate convicting former President Donald Trump and barring him from holding federal office again, a new poll has found. The poll, released by ABC News and Ipsos on Sunday, comes just days before Trump’s second impeachment trial is set to begin on February 9. It … Read more

One in four Americans say they will NEVER get a COVID-19 vaccine

Nearly a quarter of Americans say they will never get a COVID-19 vaccine if they can help it, a new poll reveals.  It comes as COVID-19 deaths in the US surpass 450,000 amid a vaccine rollout that got off to a painfully slow start and was hampered by distrust of the shots.  Monmouth University’s poll, … Read more

More than half of Americans with uncontrolled asthma smoke marijuana

More than half of Americans who do not have their asthma under control are marijuana users, a new small study suggests. Researchers found that about one-third of patients whose asthma is untreated and out of control have smoked cannabis in the past while one-fifth report currently use the drug. What’s more, the patients were more … Read more