Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats amid inflammatory statements made by critics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer whose new book is filled with wild claims attacking the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious,” Fauci said of Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News on Tuesday. “I just think he’s a very disturbed individual.” The… Source link

FILE – In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January 2022. The internet search giant is also to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) After more than two years of quiet, Google might be feeling lucky… Source link

Many people in the country are out now again looking for COVID-19 tests and vaccines with the Omicron variant raging, but that isn’t stopping publicly traded Rite Aid (RAD) from closing underperforming locations in a bid to further improve its profits.  The pharmacy chain revealed Tuesday it will shutter up to 63 stores in coming months. Closures began in November, Rite Aid said. The closures are expected to pad earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by $25… Source link

While the circumstances that got us to this point aren’t ideal, it’s surely exciting that we have two more NFL games on Tuesday night. We’ve got two big divisional games on the schedule that can impact the playoff race and seeding in the NFC. The betting market for these two games have been all over the place all week as news of positive tests and postponements came out. Who is the public siding with heading into kickoff? Bettors like the Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Football… Source link

Novavax (NVAX) is finally ready to submit its application for emergency use authorization (EUA) in the U.S., and could do so as early as this week, according to CEO Stanley Erck. “We will be filing within the next few days in the U.S.,” Erck told Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday. The company has made significant progress on its path to its first commercial product, the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, marking three major milestones in the past week. Novavax has now received four emergency use approvals,… Source link

Former United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is sticking with his long-time peers in the airline industry that safety is a top priority during the pandemic, even if that means you have to wear a mask on a plane or employees must be vaccinated.  Shared Munoz on Yahoo Finance Live, “This is an industry where no good deed goes unpunished. There are so many viewpoints that it is hard to sort of measure everything. At United — which is all I can speak of with my successor and all those folks — the… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports Writing this column after the fantasy football massacre that was Week 15 isn’t easy, but I’ll do my best to sort through what went down in order to best prepare you for Week 16. Hopefully, some of you made it through last week’s debacle and get a fresh slate for this next round. Rosters still need to be trimmed of all the fat and what-ifs so they are streamlined for success over these next few weeks. Below is a look at some players who can be dropped and sent… Source link

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady wasn’t a fan of the hit that resulted in Chris Godwin‘s injury. Godwin will miss the rest of the season after tearing his ACL during Sunday’s loss against the New Orleans Saints. Godwin was injured on a brutal hit in which the defender’s helmet made direct contact with Godwin’s knee. Godwin left the contest and was unable to return. The next day, it was revealed Godwin tore his ACL. Brady expressed frustration with the play on his “Let’s Go” podcast,… Source link

ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith knows how to make an announcement. On Tuesday morning he tweeted this teaser to try to convince people to tune into his show, “First Take,” at 10 a.m. to hear some news he had to share.  The tone of Smith’s tweet seemed excited, so it was a little surprising to hear him announcing that he has tested positive for COVID-19. He was filming virtually and was not in the studio at the time.  “I’ve tested positive for COVID-19, I have the coronavirus. I learned this… Source link

Every great quarterback knows they would be nothing without their offensive line. The men in the trenches who give them the time to set and throw the perfect spiral on the game-winning touchdown deserve a little recognition too, especially around the holidays. Ever since former Miami Dolphins QB Dan Marino famously gifted Isotoner gloves to his teammates in a memorable 1980s commercial, it’s almost become a cliché for the starting QB to at the very minimum give them a gift card to Outback… Source link