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Mar 26 2021
News
The C.D.C.’s ex-director offers no evidence in favoring speculation that the coronavirus originated in a lab.
The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a CNN clip on Friday that he favored a theory, decried by many scientists and rejected as “extremely unlikely” by at least one World Health Organization international expert, that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan. The former official, Dr. Robert Redfield, offered no evidence and emphasized that it was his
New York Times (News)Mar 26 2021
News
Ex-CDC director says he believes coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield told CNN on Friday that he believes the coronavirus "escaped" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that it was spreading as early as September or October of 2019 — though he stressed that it was his "opinion."
Why it matters: It's a stunning assertion, offered with little evidence, by the man who led the U.S. government's public health agency
AxiosSep 20 2021
News
Twitter lashes out over celebrities at 2021 Emmys going maskless
Mask on, mask off.
The 2021 Emmy Awards were full of colorful ensembles, moving speeches and coveted gold statuettes — but no masks in sight.
While 2020’s coronavirus had awards shows very scaled down, the party only got bigger this year. Many viewers and fans on social media, Twitter and beyond certainly had something to say about the celebs sitting in close proximity to one
New York Post (News)Sep 20 2021
News
U.S. to ease Covid travel entry rules, require vaccinations for foreign visitors
The Biden administration will require all international travelers coming into the United States to be fully vaccinated and tested for Covid-19 under a new system that will open up air travel to vaccinated foreign nationals from dozens of countries for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.
Starting in early November, foreign nationals will be allowed to fly into the U.S.
NBC News DigitalAug 07 2020
Opinion
Keeping loved ones from visiting our coronavirus patients is making them sicker
Nearly six months into the coronavirus pandemic, an emptiness lingers at the bedsides of our patients in hospitals wards and intensive care units. Though some hospitals are trying out limited visitation policies, most are not, leaving too many of our patients without loved ones at their side. The trauma to families, while difficult to measure, is immense, and the absence of loved ones is
Multiple Writers - CenterMar 05 2021
Analysis
Global Freedom Is Losing Ground
Democracies are going to have to do better at exercising their core liberal values to prove their worth and win back support.
Not that it's surprising after a year of lockdowns, travel restrictions, and emergency powers, but the world is becoming less free. A new report says that pandemic-era authoritarianism is an acceleration of a pre-existing trend rather than a new phenomenon. For
ReasonMay 04 2021
News
Pfizer Reaps Hundreds of Millions in Profits From Covid Vaccine
Last year, racing to develop a vaccine in record time, Pfizer made a big decision: Unlike several rival manufacturers, which vowed to forgo profits on their shots during the Covid-19 pandemic, Pfizer planned to profit on its vaccine.
On Tuesday, the company announced just how much money the shot is generating.
The vaccine brought in $3.5 billion in revenue in the first three
New York Times (News)Dec 18 2020
News
Biden Tells Colbert He Would Thank Trump for ‘Getting the Vaccine Moving’
President-elect Joe Biden has been fiercely critical of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
During the first presidential debate, Biden told Trump, “You’re the worst president America has ever had,” in a heated exchange over the president’s federal income taxes.
But now that he is the president-elect, Biden has said that he seeks to “unite us here at
Independent Journal ReviewNov 19 2020
News
Facebook content moderators demand safer working conditions
A group of more than 200 Facebook content moderators, as well as some full-time employees,* are demanding the tech company “stop needlessly risking moderators’ lives,” they wrote in an open letter to Facebook and the company’s contractors that manage content moderators, Accenture and Covalen. This comes after The Intercept reported how some Facebook content moderators — who deal with things
TechCrunchFeb 08 2021
News
New variants raise worry about COVID-19 virus reinfections
Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the coronavirus if they mounted a weak defense the first time, new research suggests.
How long immunity lasts from natural infection is one of the big questions in the pandemic. Scientists still think
Associated Press