Young people are throwing coronavirus parties with a payout when one gets infected
(CNN) — Some young people in Alabama are throwing Covid-19 parties, a disturbing competition where people who have coronavirus attend and the first person to get infected receives a payout, local officials said.
The parties are being held in Tuscaloosa, and infected people are urged to attend so others can intentionally contract the virus, City Council member Sonya McKinstry told CNN. She said she heard about the trend from fire officials.
“We thought that was kind of a rumors at first. We did some research, not only do the doctors’ offices confirm it, but the state confirmed they also had the same information,” she said.
During a presentation to the City Council this week, Fire Chief Randy Smith also said young people in the city are throwing parties with a payout if they catch coronavirus, McKinstry said.
The first person confirmed by a doctor to have coronavirus after the exposure wins the money made off the ticket sales, she said. Over the past few weeks, there have been several parties in the city and surrounding areas, and probably more that officials don’t know about, she added.
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“It makes me furious,” McKinstry said. “Furious to the fact that something that is so serious and deadly is being taken for granted. Not only is it irresponsible, but you could contract the virus and take it home to your parents or grandparents.”
The city is working on getting the word out and breaking up such parties. It also passed a mask ordinance this week that goes into effect Monday.
“This is not political. This is a public health issue. People are dying and there is no cure. We have to do whatever we can to save as many lives as possible, McKinstry said.
CNN has reached out to the Alabama Health Department for comment. The state has reported about 39,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 1,000 deaths.
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Groom with coronavirus may have infected 113 people at his own wedding
An Indian man who traveled home for his wedding last month may have infected 113 people at the ceremony, a report said.
The 31-year-old man — who died two days after the wedding — traveled to Paliganj from New Delhi for the June 15 celebration attended by more 350 friends and family, according to The Indian Express.
The groom had pleaded with his family to stop the wedding because he was sick — but he was denied.
“Even though he was feeling unwell by June 14 and wanted the wedding deferred, family heads from both sides advised against it, citing huge financial losses if the arrangements had to be canceled,” a relative told the outlet.
Two days after the wedding, the man’s condition became serious and he was rushed to the hospital but died on the way. The family cremated his body, the report said.
A relative said they were less concerned about the virus because “rural areas are almost COVID-free.”
Local authorities are now attempting to prevent the infection from spreading any further.
All close relatives who attended the wedding were tested. The bride was not among those who tested positive.
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White woman pulls gun on black woman, daughter during parking lot argument
A white woman pulled a gun on a black mother and her 15-year-old daughter during a heated caught-on-camera confrontation Wednesday at a Michigan Chipotle.
Video of the incident in the eatery’s parking lot in Lake Orion shows the woman, in a black T-shirt, point the gun at the mom, Takelia Hill.
“Get away,” the woman warns, as Hill can be heard saying, “She got the gun on me!”
The women begin arguing, as the one with the gun backs up near her SUV, screaming, “Get the f–k back!” at Hill.
The heated confrontation erupted after the woman allegedly bumped into Hill’s teen daughter, Makayla Green, while exiting the Chipotle in Orion Township at about 8 p.m.
“Before I could walk into Chipotle, this woman was coming out and I had moved out the way so she can walk out,” Green told The Detroit News. “She bumped me and I said, ‘Excuse you.’ And then she started cussing me out and saying things like I was invading her personal space.”
Frightened, the teen called her mom over.
“I walked up on the woman yelling at my daughter,” Hill said. “She couldn’t see me because her back was to me, but she was in my daughter’s face.”
The alleged bump was not caught on video. The footage picks up after the altercation moved into the parking lot, and begins with Hill and her daughter arguing with the unidentified woman as they demand an apology.
“You’re very racist and ignorant,” the teen says at one point, after a man in the driver’s seat of the SUV helps the woman into the passenger seat of the car.
The altercation then continues with the woman telling Hill, “You cannot just walk around calling white people racist.”
“Why would you bump her? Why didn’t you say sorry?” Hill continuously asks the woman in response.
The woman goes on to say, “White people aren’t racist … I care about you and I’m sorry if you had an incident that has made someone make you feel like that. No one is racist.”
The woman rolls her window up and the SUV begins backing out of the parking spot.
Hill is seen stepping back as the SUV starts to drive away, before she then hits the back window of the vehicle, claiming she thought the driver was going to hit them.
That’s when the woman jumps back out of the SUV and pulls a gun on Hill and her daughter, and Hill can be heard saying “She got the gun on me!” as the woman yells “Get the f–k back!”
The woman was later arrested by police, according to the Daily Mail.
Auburn Hills Police department confirmed the incident happened to the outlet but it is not known if the woman was charged.
The video, which was tweeted by Green, has received more than 7 million views as of Thursday.
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‘Beavis and Butt-Head’ gets an upgrade with two new seasons by Mike Judge
(CNN) — Comedy Central on Wednesday announced “Beavis and Butt-Head” creator Mike Judge will reimagine the Gen X MTV series in two new seasons. Judge also will create additional spinoffs and specials of the animated series.
“Beavis and Butt-Head,” which first aired in 1993, quickly became a pop culture hit. It centered around two oddball teenage couch potatoes whose commentary is anything but wise.
Judge is set to write, produce and provide voice-over for both characters for Comedy Central.
“We are thrilled to be working with Mike Judge and the great team at 3 Arts again as we double down on Adult Animation at Comedy Central” Chris McCarthy, president of Entertainment & Youth Group, said in a statement. “Beavis and Butt-Head were a defining voice of a generation, and we can’t wait to watch as they navigate the treacherous waters of a world light-years from their own.”
“It seemed like the time was right to get stupid again,” Judge said in a statement.
After the first run of the series, Judge went on to create “Silicon Valley” and “King of the Hill,” and movies such as “Office Space” and “Idiocracy,” among others.
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New Jersey teens beat homeless man to death, filmed lifeless body
A pair of New Jersey teens are facing a first-degree murder charge after they allegedly beat a homeless man to death and filmed his lifeless body in an alleyway, police said.
The teens, a 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old female, are accused of beating Bobby J. Hill Jr. to death in Camden last week, according to the county prosecutor’s office.
The 63-year-old Hill was found unresponsive just after midnight June 25 on the 1100 block of Kaighn Avenue with “severe” head injuries, and died at a nearby hospital shortly after, authorities said.
Cops tracked down the teens, whose names were not released because they are juveniles, through surveillance footage that showed them walking into the alley with Hill — and leaving without him several minutes later, police said.
The two teens allegedly filmed Hill’s beaten body with one of their cellphones after the attack, cops said.
Camden County Prosecutor Jill Mayer announced the arrest of the teens Tuesday night.
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Alabama students partied despite knowing they had coronavirus
University of Alabama students recently partied around campus — despite knowing they were infected with the coronavirus, a local report said Tuesday.
Tuscaloosa Fire Chief Randy Smith said he discovered that “students or kids” with “known positives” had been attending parties in the county and city over the last few weeks.
Local outlet WBMA reported that some of the partiers were students at the University of Alabama.
The fire chief made the revelation during an agenda briefing for a Tuscaloosa City Council meeting, where lawmakers later passed an ordinance mandating that people wear masks in public places.
Smith said he believed the information to be a rumor at first — but that doctors’ offices and even the state confirmed it.
There have been 1,986 reported COVID-19 cases in the county and 38 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Statewide, there have been at least 37,536 recorded infections and 926 fatalities — but the average number of daily recorded cases has recently been surging.
More than 850 new cases were reported Tuesday, and 44 people were hospitalized. More than 20 people died, according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health.
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US buys nearly all global stock of coronavirus drug remdesivir
The US has bought almost the entire global supply of remdesivir, the anti-viral drug that can speed the recovery of patients infected with the coronavirus.
Health and Human Services Secretary announced earlier this week an agreement to secure large quantities of the medication from Gilead Sciences until September, allowing US hospitals to buy it.
“President Trump has struck an amazing deal to ensure Americans have access to the first authorized therapeutic for COVID-19,” Azar said in a statement.
“To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it. The Trump Administration is doing everything in our power to learn more about life-saving therapeutics for COVID-19 and secure access to these options for the American people.”
HHS said it secured more than 500,000 treatment courses of the drug.
“This represents 100 percent of Gilead’s projected production for July (94,200 treatment courses), 90 percent of production in August (174,900 treatment courses), and 90 percent of production in September (232,800 treatment courses), in addition to an allocation for clinical trials,” it said.
Remdesivir will cost $3,120 for the typical patient with private health insurance, the drugmaker said Monday, adding that it will cost hospitals about $520 per dose for privately insured patients.
The shorter, more common course of treatment would work out to $3,120, while the longer duration would cost $5,720, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The anti-viral drug is the only one approved by the European Medicines Agency to treat coronavirus patients, according to Euronews.
Another drug found to have an effect on coronavirus patients is the steroid dexamethasone, which reduces the number of deaths in the most severely ill patients by up to a third, the news outlet reported, citing British researchers.
“They’ve got access to most of the drug supply [of remdesivir], so there’s nothing for Europe,” Dr. Andrew Hill, senior visiting research fellow at Liverpool University, told the UK’s Guardian.
“This is the first major approved drug, and where is the mechanism for access? Once again we’re at the back of the queue,” he said.
Hill added the UK could still get its hands on remdesivir through what is known as a compulsory license, which overrides the intellectual property rights of the company.
That would allow the UK to purchase from generic companies in Bangladesh or India, where Gilead’s patent is not recognized, the Guardian reported.
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Coronavirus patient suffers 4-hour erection from blood clot
A coronavirus patient in France suffered a four-hour erection due to a blood clot that may have been triggered by the illness, doctors have warned.
The 62-year-old man experienced the painful condition known as priapism while in the intensive care unit at a Le Chesnay hospital, according to a case report in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Doctors initially applied an ice pack to the area, but after four hours his erection still had not disappeared.
Using a needle, they instead decided to drain the blood from his penis and discovered that it was full of blood clots, the report said.
Doctors said blood clots are common among coronavirus patients, but his case was the first known of priapism, which is caused by blood trapped in the penis.
“The clinical and laboratory presentation in our patient strongly suggests priapism related to SARS-CoV-2 infection,” doctors wrote.
But more research is needed into the link between the strange case of blood clotting and the virus, they said.
“Although the arguments supporting a causal link between COVID-19 and priapism are very strong in our case, reports of further cases would strengthen the evidence,” the report said.
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Father makes son turn himself in after finding texts admitting to rape
A United Kingdom father marched his son to a police station after he saw texts on the teen’s phone admitting to raping a girl, according to a report.
Jonathan Evans, 47, of Pontypool, South Wales, said he encouraged his 18-year-old son, Jack, to “do the right thing” and go to the police, the Mirror reported.
“I believe you have to own what you did,” Evans told the outlet. “So I had to make it his choice. I am really proud of him for coming to the conclusion that the right thing to do was admit to it.”
Jack confessed to the January 2019 attack and police tracked down the girl, who confirmed she had been raped, according to the report.
He has been sentenced two years in a juvenile detention center and ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years, the report said.
His dad said most parents would have kept quiet, but he still “would do the same thing again.”
“I would have to because that is my moral standing on it, it is painful but it is right,” Jonathan told the Mirror.
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Ohio Little Caesars delivers pizza with pepperoni swastika
An Ohio couple ordered a pizza and was horrified to open the box to find its pepperoni arranged as a swastika, according to a report.
Jason Laska said he had picked up the pie Saturday night from a Little Caesars shop in Brook Park and brought it home, WJW-TV reported.
“[My wife] turned and asked me, ‘Babe, did you order this, did they make it for you?’ And I turned around and looked at it and I could see the shock on her face and then my jaw just dropped,” Laska told the outlet.
The couple called the pizza joint, which had just closed, to complain and received a response the following day from the manager.
“[The employees] told him that it was supposed to be an internal joke that they were playing on each other and the other employee, and the pizza was never intended to go out,” Laska said.
The manager told them that employees involved were let go, but the couple said they never plan to return to the store.
“We are the type of people that support the diversity in our country, we embrace and love it. We just want to see this hate stop,” Laska’s wife, Misty, told WJW-TV.
Little Caesars confirmed in a statement that the chain fired the employees involved in the offensive incident.
“We have zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form, and these franchise store employees were immediately terminated,” a spokesperson told the outlet. “We’re deeply disappointed that this happened, as this conduct is completely against our values.”
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