Highly contagious UK ‘super-covid’ variant found in 80% of Houston’s sewage

The highly contagious UK variant is rapidly spreading throughout Houston, Texas, a new analysis has found. On Monday, the Houston Health Department revealed the variant, known as B.1.1.7 was found at more than three-quarters of the city’s wastewater plants in samples collected February 22. This is 47 percent higher than the number of plants the … Read more

Kelly Clarkson starts 2020 Billboard Music Awards with rendition of Whitney Houston’s Higher Love

It’s her third year in a row as host of the annual music awards show. And Kelly Clarkson also kicked off the 2020 Billboard Music Awards musical acts on Wednesday night, performing Whitney Houston’s Higher Love with with Pentatonix & Sheila E. The three-time Grammy winner shimmered in a full-length gold dress for her show-stopping performance … Read more

Taylor Swift beats Whitney Houston’s record for most weeks at No.1 on Billboard 200 for a female

Taylor Swift has just surpassed Whitney Houston’s longstanding record for most cumulative weeks spent at number one on the Billboard 200 chart for a female artist. Swift’s grand total, across across all of her chart-topping albums, comes to 47 weeks, which is one more week than Houston’s 46 week record, as reported by Billboard on Sunday. Houston, … Read more

Texas on the verge of Covid crisis: Houston’s largest hospital’s ICU is 97% full

A hospital in Houston, Texas, says its intensive care unit is near capacity as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to surge in The Lone Star State. Texas Medical Center (TMC), the self-declared largest medical complex in the world, said on Tuesday that 97 percent of its ICU beds are occupied. The normal occupancy rate … Read more