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After COVID-19 delays, CBS says newly-shot episodes of 'The Bold and The Beautiful' coming July 20

Jul 14, 2020 10:52am

©Jessica Hromas/CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LOS ANGELES) -- CBS announced on Monday that The Bold and the Beautiful, which resumed production over two weeks ago, will start airing new episodes on July 20.
The daytime drama on June 16 became the first U.S. broadcast series to resume production on stage, following strict COVID-19 safety protocols, but shut down after one day to “modify [its] testing protocol to better accommodate the large volume of testing needed.”
The soap, which films at Television City in Los Angeles, resumed production on June 24 and has been taping ever since.

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Virologists debunk conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was man-made

Jul 6, 2020 11:53pm

iStock/da-kuk(NEW YORK) -- The theory about COVID-19 being developed in a Chinese lab has been debunked by virologists, with officials taking aim at a recent allegation made by researchers from Britain and Norway.
The British/Norway team at St. George's, University of London is one of many labs in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The team recently wrote a report claiming that the RNA sequence in the coronavirus appeared to be artificial or man-made, so their vaccine would take that into account.
The paper also claimed that vaccines would fail to treat COVID-19 because the virus contained man-made components.
Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., professor of virology at Columbia University, has since called the research paper "nonsense" and that "The manuscript is replete with incorrect science."
The virology professor told ABC News, "It is absolutely 100% impossible that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a laboratory. The elements in the virus, SARS-CoV-2, all came from bat SARS-like CoVs that circulate in nature."
There's overwhelming consensus that COVID-19 occurred naturally, in nature, and was not the product of mankind. Despite the constant debunking, several politicians have latched onto the theory that COVID-19 was developed in a Chinese laboratory.
Robert Garry, Ph.D., virologist at Tulane University, said "No scientist or group of scientists created this virus in a laboratory. That would require insight into [viral] pathogenesis and protein engineering that does not exist."
Garry added that the components found in COVID-19 were discovered in other genetic material sampled from animals.
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'Days of Our Lives' star Judi Evans almost had her legs amputated due to COVID-19

Jul 6, 2020 11:53pm

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) -- It’s been a rough month for Days of Our Lives star Judi Evans, who contracted COVID-19 while in the hospital recovering from a serious horseback riding accident.
Howie Tiger Simon, a rep for the 55-year-old actress gave an update on her condition in a Facebook post on Monday, reporting she experienced “mild” coronavirus symptoms -- like fever, body aches and a cough -- but ”nearly had both legs amputated on two different occasions,” due to “COVID blood clots.
“On top of everything," Simon continues, “when she went into surgery on one of her legs, they forgot to numb the leg and cut into her leg while she was fully conscience with no numbing of the area!”
Evans is in “good spirits and back to Judi ‘humor’ despite all these spiraling turn of events,” adds Simon. “She has said she appreciates all the prayers for her and they’ve helped her mentally, physically and spiritually!…She just wants to continue to test negative on COVID19 before she can go home and get the rest she so needs!!!”
The actress, who plays Adrienne Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives suffered a broken collarbone, several broken ribs, two chipped vertebra and a collapsed lung from blunt force trauma in the horseback riding accident that occurred on May 16, according to Access.
Evans’ character died in a car accident back in January. However, Wally Kurth — who plays her onscreen husband Justin Kirakis — assured fans that Evans would be returning to the show, but didn’t reveal how.
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Distillery accidentally sells gin bottles containing hand sanitizer

Jul 6, 2020 11:53pm

Jeremy Poland/iStock(MELBOURNE) -- It seems workers at a gin distillery in Australia might have been hitting the sauce themselves after it was discovered that they accidentally shipped gin bottles filled with hand sanitizer instead of alcohol.
The the Apollo Bay Distillery outside Melbourne posted a product safety recall on its Facebook page Monday, warning people that the bottles, which contain 1.45 percent glycerol and 0.125 percent hydrogen peroxide, isn’t lethal if consumed, but it can cause nausea, headaches, dizziness, vomiting and diarrhea.
Like many alcohol distilleries around the world, Apollo Bay had previously converted part of its facility into hand sanitizer production to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia has done relatively well managing the pandemic, reporting just 7,276 cases and 102 deaths to date, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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