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Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China

The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan. “This is a moral and scientific imperative,” the WHO said in a statement to mark what it called the “milestone” anniversary. “Without transparency, sharing, and co-operation among […]

Technology

Louisiana bars health dept. from promoting flu, COVID, mpox vaccines: Report

Louisiana’s health department has been barred from advertising or promoting vaccines for flu, COVID-19, and mpox, according to reporting by NPR, KFF Health News, and New Orleans Public Radio WWNO. Their investigative report—based on interviews with multiple health department employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation—revealed that employees were told […]

Science

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has presented evidence that her lab has not worked with close relatives of SARS-CoV-2.Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of new coronaviruses collected […]

Politics

Trump’s Pick To Run DEA Backs Out After Republicans Blast His COVID Enforcement

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Drug Enforcement Administration has declined the role after Republican lawmakers blasted him for taking COVID measures seriously during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister, a Florida Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that he had decided to drop out after the “gravity […]