“Stephen Colbert on Thursday invited former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton onto “The Late Show” to take the COVID-19 vaccine. All three former presidents have pledged to take the vaccine. Former President Jimmy Carter, 96, urged Americans to get vaccinated, but didn’t say whether he would. Obama said he may get the shot on television to promote its safety. “If they want to get vaccinated on TV, that’s where I work. Come on guys,” said Colbert, who pointed out that Elvis Presley received his polio shot backstage at the “Ed Sullivan Show” in 1956. “Put your antibodies where your mouth is. Come on my show and drop trowel backstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater in my Late Show Immuno-Tabulous Ex-Presidential Jab-a-Rama,” he joked. Check out Colbert’s monologue here: And Colbert’s “Quarantinewhile” segment here:
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["The latest stimulus offer from the White House comes with one-time $600 payments for most Americans and a lump of coal for the unemployed. The new proposal offered by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin swapped the $3...
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["President Donald Trump on Tuesday spun the high number of Americans who have been infected with COVID-19 as “terrific,” claiming falsely that all those cases serve as a “powerful vaccine.” “I think that the vaccine ...
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["Meryl Streep would like to set the record straight. During an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Monday, the Oscar-winning actor clarified a certain moment that former President Barack Obama got ...
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COVID-19 Deaths, Georgia Elections And Trump Pardons: Views From HuffPost Readers
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["HuffPost Illustration In a recent poll, one of HuffPost members’ top-requested features was a roundup of reader comments. Every week, HuffPost editors read your comments on our top stories and highlight those that c...
U.S. Regulators Post Positive Review Of Pfizer Vaccine Data
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents released by U.S. regulators Tuesday confirmed that Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was strongly protective against COVID-19 ― offering the world’s first detailed look at the eviden...
William Shakespeare Is Second Person To Receive Vaccine As UK Begins Shots
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["An historical occasion like the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine requires an historic name, right? Enter one William Shakespeare, an 81-year-old British man who on Tuesday became the second person in the world to re...
Pfizer Declines Invitation To White House ‘Vaccine Summit’
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["Pfizer and Moderna, two pharmaceutical companies that have developed promising COVID-19 vaccines, will not participate in a “vaccine summit” Tuesday at the White House that touted the participation of private sector...