Reflecting on COVID-19's Five-Year Mark and the Latest on Wendy Williams

The Headlines:

• Five Years Since COVID-19 Was Declared a Global Pandemic
• Wendy Williams Taken by Ambulance After Dropping a Desperate Note
• Innovative Solution to Banana Waste: The 12-Hour Fresh Banana

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Five Years Since COVID-19 Was Declared a Global Pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, marking a significant turning point in modern history. The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, rapidly spread worldwide, leading to unprecedented measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, and the widespread adoption of remote work and virtual communication tools. Over the past five years, COVID-19 has profoundly impacted global health, economies, and daily life, with over 7 million reported deaths worldwide, including 1.2 million in the United States. While the WHO declared the end of the global health emergency on May 5, 2023, the pandemic's effects continue to influence society today.
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Wendy Williams Taken by Ambulance After Dropping a Desperate Note
Wendy Williams was taken from her New York assisted living facility by ambulance after reportedly dropping a handwritten note from her window, begging for help. The incident prompted a wellness check from law enforcement. Wendy’s struggles with health issues and legal battles over her financial guardianship have been widely publicized in recent years. The details surrounding the note and her condition remain unclear, but sources close to the situation say she is now receiving care.
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Innovative Solution to Banana Waste: The 12-Hour Fresh Banana
Food waste remains a pressing global issue, particularly with perishable items like bananas. To address this, Tropic, a biotech company based in England, has developed a genetically modified banana that remains fresh for up to 12 hours after being peeled. This innovation aims to significantly reduce the staggering statistic that over 60% of exported bananas are wasted before reaching consumers. By extending the freshness of bananas, Tropic hopes to decrease food waste and reduce CO2 emissions along the supply chain by more than 25%, potentially equating to removing two million passenger vehicles from the road each year.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for Nina's what's trending looking back on this
day five years ago in history, it was when COVID
was born. I guess, not born, but it was declared
a national emergency on March thirteenth, five years ago. That's nuts,
isn't that crazy? And it was Donald Trump who declared
it a national emergency. So we've had a whole nother president.
And at least it.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Feels like both yesterday and thirty years ago.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, it is that. I was still in school.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I was debating whether or not to go out on
Saint Patrick's Day or not. And then I didn't go,
and all my friends got sick and I was like sucko,
And then it got spiraled really bad. Yeah, but in
that moment we weren't sure how bad it was. So
five years ago already, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
I haven't had it, really, I don't know. I believe
that I haven't had it once, not once. You got
tested when you get sick a million times. Of course,
we were all testing all the time.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I was begging for it at one point because I
really needed a break.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Wait, we all had it in the studio. I never
got it. I was in the studio.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I I was the one running everything at the studio.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
I also just realized something the other day. I had COVID.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I don't know, sometime last year, and I did have
COVID because I tested with one test and you know,
it said COVID. I did it twice and it said
that I had COVID, and then I got a different test,
and then I was supposed to go somewhere and I
was like, I'm still testing positive. And I tested positive
for a long time. Like remember how long.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Pretty sad it was. It was about like a week
and a half, you were testing positive.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, I realized I was reading the test wrong. I
was actually negative.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Last year when we were going on that trip and
you had it.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
So I don't know how long I was negative for.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But I.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Didn't read the directions fully.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
It had a C and then the T, and if
you had like two lines on the C and the T,
then you were still. But I thought because it had
C is like COVID, you guys start it that.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
We all had and the rearranging that to a comedy.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I did that. Yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I know I did, at least for a certain point.
Clear it wasn't that long after forty years?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
How did you not know how to read it COVID test?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Because I also remembering how does he still have COVID?

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I was so nervous after being around you, after you're
saying it two weeks later.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
All right, anyways, Yeah, this is a very face racking
I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
The trickle down from that, it is just what's cracking
me up?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
All right? Moving moving on from that. It was nice
to see the concern though from people. You know, tis
like making your own death. Yeah, who cares?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Wow, I don't really know how to move into the
next story because it's actually kind of sad but also
interesting because you may have scenes headlines starting to swirl
all over the place on social media. So you guys
know who Wendy Williams is, right, So she used to
have her own talk show. She's been around for a
long time, and she's known for having a big mouth
and all of that.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, so she has had some type of health problems
that started.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
To struggle with alcoholism.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, so four years ago she was taking although she
stopped doing her show and she's got a conservatorship right now,
so she's been staying in this assisted living facility where
they've been watching her because she's been diagnosed with dementia
and a phasia, and so she has somebody that's looking
out for her. Well, she threw a note from her
room in New York down onto the floor that just

(03:38):
said help Wendy. So that's the part that everybody is
starting to see that she sent a note out the
window to try to get help.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
So she ended up getting escorted out.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
There was this whole thing where she's supposed to be
on the show for the first time in four years.
But the good news is and she's been testing and
that she's been able to pass a bunch of stuff,
and so the judge is willing to reopen her conservatorship
right now. But how do you go into a conservator
ship like they don't sound like great things like her?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
And then Britney Spears is if.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
You can't take care of yourself, and they can prove that,
like Britney Spears wasn't able to take care of herself
at that time, and Wendy Williams not able to take
care of herself.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
So I know, kind of sad, crazy, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
So I also people take avantage of you it when
you're in those situations like that's a mess up.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
So after seeing all those headlines, so there is good
news there. It's just the note is the one that's
been going viral and I'll leave you on it up, so.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
We'll go out on it up.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
So scientists have created a banana that stays fresh for
twelve hours after opening it. What those only amount of
time that they do that for avocados?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh geez, that does not sound good.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, well they say that it's not technically GMO because
they say because they use the stuff inside of the banana,
like they just were improving the different parts of Themide. No,
they didn't add anything. They just re organ what do
you call it? Thank you re engineered gmo?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
To me?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Yeah, I get near a banana likely modified sounds.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Like it right, But there's there's no foreign genetic material.
They only used existing genes by disabling the ones that
make it disabling.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
How do you disable a banana, Jean?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
If you can disable some type of gene or enzymes
and stuff like that, you should be able to cure
like all of the world's So they have modified the genes,
so it's GMO, but also one hundred percent, Nina, Why
are we doing this nonsense on bananas?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Hey, bananas, there's no drugs that you can give them,
Fuma can't make money, and bananas getting better.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
True, only when people who are eating the genetically modified
banana skins, they'll definitely need medicine exactly.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I went to.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Avocado when I read this, but now this is definitely
the bigger story.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
There's so many things that they could here, but they
don't know it.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
So that was a lot of trending, but that is
what it is this morning.