Ellen faces backlash for comparing quarantine to "being in jail"
"This is like being in jail," the comedian joked. "Mostly because I've been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone in here is gay."
Christina Capatides is the vice president of Social Media and Trending Content for CBS News and Stations.
In this role, she oversees social discovery, social production and social TV for the network. Her work in trending content involves the discovery, assignment and production of hundreds of articles and videos per month on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, CBS News 24/7 and CBSNews.com. She also oversees the social media strategy for CBS News, "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings," "Face The Nation," "CBS Sunday Morning," "48 Hours" and "CBS Saturday Morning" accounts across social media platforms; reenvisioning broadcast journalism for younger and more diverse audiences.
Capatides launched CBS News' two major social-first video franchises, "The Uplift" and "Down To Earth," growing them into successful award-winning brands. CBS News' good news brand "The Uplift," having generated many billions of views across social platforms, is now a weekly streaming show and a regular segment on "CBS Mornings" that brings viewers heartwarming stories of the best of humanity. "The Uplift" has won multiple awards for digital journalism, including the Shorty Award for Best Use of Facebook and the Cynopsis Award for Viral Video of the Year. "Down To Earth," which showcased cutting-edge longer form reporting from CBS News' foreign correspondents in the form of social-first documentaries, won the 2020 Webby Award for Best Social Video, News & Politics.
Previously, Capatides served as a senior producer on CBS Reports documentaries and CBS News streaming specials. Her documentary, "Gender: The Space Between," won a 2018 Telly Award for Social Issues and was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV Journalism - Newsmagazine.
Capatides joined CBS News in 2015. Prior to that, she worked for "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "Good Morning America," producing and editing daily news packages on the White House, Congress and the Department of Justice, out of ABC News' Washington, D.C. Bureau.
Capatides holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from New York University.
"This is like being in jail," the comedian joked. "Mostly because I've been wearing the same clothes for 10 days and everyone in here is gay."
"We out here as public workers, trying to make an honest living," he said. "For you to get on the bus... and cough... that lets me know that some folks don't care."
"Do not challenge the government," he warned the nation Wednesday. "You will lose."
"My brother Chris is positive for coronavirus," Governor Cuomo said in his briefing Tuesday. "He is young, in good shape, strong — not as strong as he thinks — but he will be fine."
"I am fully aware that masks are alien to our culture," Austria's chancellor said. "This will require a big adjustment."
Field hospitals are often used in times of war. And according to experts on the front lines, that's what this is.
He also said that people should be prepared for New York City to remain closed through May
"While there is little doubt this woman was doing it as a very twisted prank, we will not take any chances with the health and well-being of our customers," the store wrote on Facebook.
"I have been an emotional wreck about all of it," one first-time mother said.
They're the ones keeping the store shelves stocked, and yet they're largely going unrecognized in the fight against coronavirus.
"These are single use surgical masks. We're wearing them for days or weeks," wrote one nurse. "We can't save your life if we can't protect our own."
For restaurant workers, baristas, hair stylists, stadium staff and millions of others, there is no safety net in the coronavirus shutdown.
"I don't think of a curve. I think of a wave," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. "And the wave is going to break on the hospital system."
The coronavirus tests California is receiving are reportedly incomplete and the state's governor compared it to "purchasing a printer but forgetting to purchase the ink."
Some patients in the study received antiviral medications but the drugs did not appear to shorten the virus's lifespan.