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Jane Fonda Revives Her Famous Workouts In First TikTok Video

Jane Fonda posted her very first video on TikTok of herself doing the famous “Jane Fonda Workout” in order to raise climate crisis awareness. “Hello to the people of TikTok” she said, “My name is Jane Fonda and I am going to bring back the Jane Fonda workout.” 

Fonda also urged fans to join the very first virtual Fire Drill Friday rally. “Whether you are on your couch or on your yoga matt, will you join me for virtual Fire Drill Fridays? The future needs you. I need you,” she said.

Fonda and Greenpeace USA are hosting the rally throughout the month of April.

Jane Fonda revives famous ‘Workout’ — all in the name of climate change — amid coronavirus crisis

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Hospitalized With Covid-19

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized Sunday, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus. Johnson was admitted “for tests” after displaying “persistent symptoms,” according to a press release from his office. Johnson was admitted to an unnamed London hospital “on the advice of his doctor,” the release explained. The statement also said the hospitalization is a “precautionary step.”

Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 on March 26 and has dealt with lingering symptoms, including a high fever, since then. Johnson is the first known world leader to contract the disease. Since then, the 55-year-old prime minister had been quarantined at his residence at 10 Downing Street.  Johnson’s fiance, Carrie Symonds, said Saturday on Twitter that she “spent the past week in bed with the main symptoms of coronavirus.” Symonds said that she was not tested for coronavirus, and that “after seven days of rest, I feel stronger and I’m on the mend.”

Johnson remains the head of the British government for the time being. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who would take over for Johnson should he become unable to lead, will handle Monday’s coronavirus meeting, according to The Associated Press.

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Tiger At NYC’s Bronx Zoo Tests Positive For Covid-19

Federal officials and NYC’s Bronx Zoo said on Sunday that a tiger at the zoo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere.

The 4-year-old Malayan tiger named Nadia — and six other tigers and lions that have also fallen ill — are believed to have been infected by a zoo employee who wasn’t yet showing symptoms, the zoo said. The first animal started showing symptoms March 27, and all are doing well and expected to recover, said the zoo, which has been closed to the public since March 16 amid the surging coronavirus outbreak in New York. 

“I couldn’t believe it,” said zoo director Jim Breheny, but he hopes the finding can contribute to the global fight against the virus that causes COVID-19. “Any kind of knowledge that we get on how it’s transmitted, how different species react to it, that knowledge somehow is going to provide a greater base resource for people,” he said in an interview.

The finding raises new questions about transmission of the virus in animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which confirmed Nadia’s test result at its veterinary lab, says there are no known cases of the virus in U.S. pets or livestock. The USDA said Sunday it’s not recommending routine coronavirus testing of animals, in zoos or elsewhere, or of zoo employees.  There have been a handful of reports outside the U.S. of pet dogs or cats becoming infected after close contact with contagious people, including a Hong Kong dog that tested positive for a low level of the pathogen in February and early March. Hong Kong agriculture authorities concluded that pet dogs and cats couldn’t pass the virus to human beings but could test positive if exposed by their owners.

At the Bronx Zoo, Nadia, her sister Azul, two Amur tigers and three African lions have been sickened in two areas at the zoo. The animals had contact with the same worker, who is doing OK, zoo officials said. They said there are no signs of illness in other big cats on the property. Staffers who work with the cats will now wear infection-protection garb.

Tiger at US zoo tests positive for coronavirus

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Selena Gomez Reveals She Was Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder

Selena Gomez joined Miley Cyrus during the finale episode of Miley’s Instagram Live show, ‘Bright Minded’ and during the episode, Gomez revealed she was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

‘I went to one of the best mental hospitals…McLean Hospital and I discussed that after years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar,” Gomez told Cyrus. She continued, ‘I just feel like when I finally said what I was going to say, I wanted to know everything about it and it just took the fear away.’

Both Gomez and Cyrus got their start on Disney, and grew up in the spotlight. Both admitted to struggling with anxiety and depression because of their fame.

Gomez also revealed she’s made a donation to LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. That hospital is where Gomez discovered she had lupus and needed a kidney transplant.

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Pink Donating $1M To Fight Coronavirus Pandemic After Revealing Her Covid-19 Battle

Singer Pink said on social media that she and her son spent weeks in isolation after positive tests for Covid-19 but a few days ago they both tested negative for the deadly infection. Pink said when she and 3-year-old Jameson started showing symptoms two weeks ago they were already sheltering in place.

“It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible,” she wrote on Twitter.  She added that testing needs to be more available to “protect our children, our families, our friends and our communities.”

Pink said she was donating $1 million — $500,000 each to the Temple University Hospital Emergency Fund and the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Emergency Covid-19 Crisis Fund.

“Thank you to all of our healthcare professionals and everyone in the world who are working so hard to protect our loved ones,” she wrote.

Pink Donates $1 Million To Fight Coronavirus Pandemic After Testing Positive For COVID-19

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Two Cruise Ships Holding Passengers With Covid-19 Arrive In Florida

Two cruise ships holding coronavirus patients aboard for two weeks after being turned away from South American ports were allowed to dock in Florida on Thursday. The Zaandam and a sister ship sent to help it, the Rotterdam, were both given permission to disembark passengers at Port Everglades after days of negotiation with local officials. The final agreement was reached on Thursday afternoon between local, state and federal officials and Carnival Corp., which owns the Zaandam and the Rotterdam, said Broward County officials and Holland America, the company that operates the ships.

Holland America had said 45 passengers who were mildly sick would stay on board until they recovered, but that it needed 10 people to be taken to a Fort Lauderdale hospital for immediate medical care.  For nearly three weeks, passengers have not been able to step on dry land. Guests have not left the ship since March 14 and have self-isolated in their staterooms since March 22, the company said. Four elderly passengers have died on the Zaandam, at least two from COVID-19, said William Burke, chief maritime officer for Carnival Corp., which owns the ships. Nine people have tested positive for the new coronavirus, Burke said earlier this week.

There are 442 guests and 603 crew on the Zaandam, and 808 guests and 583 crew on the Rotterdam. The Rotterdam was sent last week to take in some of the passengers and provide assistance to the Zaandam since it was denied permission to dock at ports in South America. About 250 have reported influenza-like symptoms since March 22, including 17 aboard the Rotterdam, while 45 currently are mildly ill, Holland America Line has said.

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Over 6.6 Million Americans File For Unemployment Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

A record-breaking 6,648,000 people filed for unemployment in the week ending March 28 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday. COVID-19 has slammed the U.S. economy, forcing thousands of businesses to shut down amid government-mandated stay-in-place orders.

The Department of Labor said the service industry, led by accommodation and food services, was among the hardest-hit by the COVID-19 outbreak. Other industries that have been heavily impacted include health care/social assistance, manufacturing, retail and construction.

Just a few months ago, prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was near a 50-year low.

Rocky weeks ahead as U.S. unemployment numbers hit record high during coronavirus

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PETA Urges Kate McKinnon To Use CGI Cats In Scripted Series Based On Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’

PETA is urging Kate McKinnon to use only CGI cats in the upcoming scripted series about Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage), the now-imprisoned big-cat breeder who is the topic of the recently released Netflix docuseries “Tiger King.”

Last November, McKinnon signed on to star in and executive produce the TV adaptation of the podcast network Wondery’s “Joe Exotic” podcast, portraying a big-cat enthusiast named Carole Baskin, who learns that Maldonado-Passage is breeding and using his big cats for profit. According to UCP’s description of the potential series, “Carole sets out to shut down his venture and incites a quickly escalating rivalry. But she has a checkered past of her own, and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose her hypocrisy, and the results prove deadly.”

“Tiger King,” the documentary by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, has been a smash hit for Netflix and on social media. The docuseries has been Netflix’s No. 1 title overall in the U.S. since Monday, per the streaming service.

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Lizzo Sends “Thank You” Lunch To ER Workers Around the Country Amid Coronavirus

Medical professionals have been at the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic from the start and singer Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all the tedious hours they put in to keep the rest of us afloat.

“Thank you @Lizzo for sending lunches to the UW Medical Center – Montlake Emergency Department today!” read the shoutout the singer got Monday from UW Medical Center located in Seattle, Washington after they received lunch. “Your support of our frontline healthcare workers means a lot.”

The location was just one of several hospitals that got a special delivery from the body positive entertainer this week.

A set of lunches were also sent to the ER staff at Henry Ford Hospital located in her hometown of Detroit, Mich. The hospital’s official Twitter page even posted a video of Lizzo personally thanking all of the staff for their sacrifice.

“SURPRISE! @lizzo treated our ER staff at #HenryFordHospital to lunch today and shared a message of thanks to our #HealthcareHeroes on the front lines. #Lizzo, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for making our day brighter with your generosity,” read the caption.

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SURPRISE! @lizzo treated our ER staff at to lunch today and shared a message of thanks to our on the front lines. , from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for making our day brighter with your generosity.

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for all that you’re doing during this pandemic and it’s definitely not easy and you guys are putting yourselves on the front lines,” said the 31-year-old.  “So, because of that, I wanted to treat y’all to a meal.”

“I love you guys, thank you so much for being the heroes in this story. And we’re staying inside and we’re praying and thinking of you every single day. God bless you.”

Yet another set of lunches were sent to ER staff at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center whose staff thanked the singer by tagging her in a photo of them with their gift. Similar blessings were also sent to hospitals in New Orleans.

The singer posted an Instagram Live video explaining she was moved to donate food after sending a care package to a friend’s mother who is a nurse.

“I was like, you know what? I wish I could do this for every nurse,” she shared. “How can I do this for more people who are working so hard to keep all of us safe.”

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Lizzo Sends “Thank You” Lunch To ER Workers Around the Country Amid Coronavirus

Singer Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all of their hard work during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Thank you @Lizzo for sending lunches to the UW Medical Center – Montlake Emergency Department today!” read the shoutout the singer got Monday from UW Medical Center located in Seattle, Washington after they received lunch. “Your support of our frontline healthcare workers means a lot.”

The location was just one of several hospitals that got a special delivery from Lizzo; lunch was also sent to the ER staff at Henry Ford Hospital located in her hometown of Detroit, Mich. and on their Twitter page they posted a video of Lizzo personally thanking all of the staff for their sacrifice.

Lunches were also sent to ER staff at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center (whose staff thanked the singer by tagging her in a photo of them), as well as hospitals in New Orleans.

Lizzo treats ER staff to say thank you

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