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De Blasio also said, "If you're under 50 and you're healthy, which is most New Yorkers, there's very little threat here." [100] During a photo op at a public 3-1-1 call center, he told a caller there was no need to self-quarantine, despite the fact she had just returned from Italy. His instructions to the caller were subsequently reversed by ...
In this variation of COVID-19 scams, the fraudster claims that the victim is eligible for a COVID-19 benefit payment. This scam is a derivative of the advance-fee scam, where the scammer will ask the victim for a small payment in return for the 'benefit'. The scammer will then ask for further payments under the guise of problems, until the ...
The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.
In late March 2020, the governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa Huerta, caused controversy by claiming that COVID-19 affected only "wealthy people". [62] This came amid wider criticism of the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for their alleged downplayed response to the pandemic, threatening Mexicans ...
Here are a few instances where taxpayer dollars were potentially wasted through COVID-19 relief funds for businesses and people who didn’t need them. Celebrities receive loan forgiveness
The video is real and did occur during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it shows enforcement of a curfew issued during protests linked to the death of George Floyd, not COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
Anxiety about COVID-19 makes people more willing to "try anything" that might give them a sense of control of the situation, making them easy targets for scams. [5] Many false claims about measures against COVID-19 have circulated widely on social media, but some have been circulated by text, on YouTube, and even in some mainstream media ...
Here’s what Yahoo News medical contributor Dr. Lucy McBride advises if you’ve exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19, particularly for parents or guardians with school-age children.