As the omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to infect across the country, the Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will begin to distribute 400 million free N95 masks to Americans next week. The White House said that the masks will come from the government’s Strategic National Stockpile, which has more than 750 million available.BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF FREE N95 MASKSThree will be available per individual – although details were not immediately available on what sort of masks will be provided and whether they could be worn again. The... Read More

“Saturday Night Live”’s President Biden (played by James Austin Johnson) had a solution to the recent surge in coronavirus cases during the show’s cold open this weekend: “Stop seeing ‘Spider-Man!’” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” topped the box office for four straight weeks after it premiered in mid-December. “Think about it. When did Spider-Man come out?” Johnson’s Biden mused at a fake news conference. “Dec. 17. When did every single person get omicron? The week after Dec. 17. Stop seeing ‘Spider-Man!’” The fake Biden... Read More

A California resident who was a major proponent of reopening schools after many went to remote-only learning at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic has announced a run for a state assembly seat. Jonathan Zachreson, founder of Reopen California Schools, announced his run for the 5th Assembly District on Friday after Assemblymen Kevin Kiley announced he is running for congress.Zachreson told Fox News Digital that he’s running for state assembly to make 2022 “the year of the parent,” and said there are pressing issues that schools face that are being ignored by the California... Read More

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Short-staffed hospitals across the country are turning to international nurses to fill staff shortages as thousands of healthcare workers across the country are being cut loose for not submitting to a coronavirus vaccine.Administrators at Billings Clinic in Montana have contracts with two dozen international nurses and is one of “scores” of hospitals across the country bringing in nurses from other countries to address staffing issues including retirements, according to an NPR report. FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, a nurse... Read More

Sadie Robertson revealed she contracted both the flu and COVID-19 simultaneously to start off her new year.Robertson, 24, admitted she’s “exhausted” as she deals with her sickness and a rat invasion of her home in a recent Instagram post. The post featured a video of Robertson’s husband Christian Huff holding their daughter, Honey.WHAT IS FLURONA? Sadie Robertson reveals she contracted “flurona,” coronavirus and the flu. (Photo by Mike Pont/Getty Images)”It started off by me getting FLURONA (flu + covid) (yikes) so obviously I was so bummed to miss passion... Read More

The first confirmed case of the “flurona” — the flu and coronavirus combination — has been confirmed in Los Angeles County.Officials at a COVID-19 testing site Brentwood, in Northern California, confirmed the unique case after a child tested positive for both Influenza A and SARS-CoV-2, a local news outlet reported.’FLURONA’ HITS US AMID RECORD COVID-19 CASES, RESURGENCE OF INFLUENZAThe child’s mother also received a coronavirus-positive test the following day. Medical doctor giving injection to make antibody for coronavirus (iStock)The individuals were being tested... Read More

David Lee Roth has canceled the remaining shows he was scheduled to play at the House of Blues in Las Vegas amid coronavirus concerns, Fox News Digital has confirmed.The Van Halen frontman, 67, had previously postponed shows scheduled for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and was to play a total of nine shows as he bid farewell to his career as a rock and roll stage performer.Roth announced he was “throwing in the shoes” back in October during a phone call with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.”I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” he said at the time. “This... Read More

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio slammed the “irrational hysteria” surrounding the surge of coronavirus cases as the omicron variant spreads. “Record numbers testing positive for a sore throat isn’t a crisis. And people in the hospital for car accidents testing positive isn’t a surge,” Rubio tweeted Friday. NEW YORK, FLORIDA SHATTER SINGLE-DAY RECORDS FOR COVID-19 CASES”The real crisis is the irrational hysteria which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days.”The average... Read More

The Church of the Nativity, which is the traditional site where Jesus was born in Bethlehem, remains shut to would-be foreign Christian pilgrims because of Israel’s latest response to the omicron variant of the coronavirus.Most tourists who visit the church, which is in Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank, travel there through Israel, which recently extended a ban on foreign travelers that it implemented last month. The country has also restricted residents from traveling to other countries, including the United States. Tourists visit the Church of the Nativity, in the West... Read More

“Saturday Night Live” became the latest casualty of the coronavirus and its highly contagious omicron variant this weekend, following the Radio City Rockettes and several Broadway shows in scaling back or shutting down completely in New York City, While the last new “SNL” episode of 2021 wasn’t completely canceled, it had no audience or live musical guest and most of the cast was sent home. The show featured mostly pre-recorded segments as well as video shorts from past Christmas episodes.Tom Hanks (who joked he wasn’t going to fly across the country and not be on TV)... Read More