Democratic members of the #House select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic defended Dr. Anthony #Fauci ahead of Monday's hearing about the #US’ #COVID19#pandemic response, policies & transparency.
The representatives blasted #Republicans’ claims of Fauci’s involvement in starting [for real they had to say this] or covering up the pandemic as a “dangerous” & “cartoonish” narrative.
Dr #Fauci dismisses ‘preposterous’ allegations that he led #covid coverup
The infectious-disease expert said #Republicans have distorted emails between #scientists as they discussed whether a lab leak of the coronavirus was possible.
Fauci defended himself against claims that he orchestrated a coverup of the #coronavirus#pandemic’s origins, w/the fmr govt official rejecting some allegations as “simply preposterous.”
The prominent infectious-disease expert, who served as a snr leader at the #NIH for 4 decades, said #Republicans have distorted emails between himself & other scientists as they discussed whether a lab leak of the #coronavirus was possible.
“We spend our whole life trying to determine the causes of infectious diseases, & stop them to protect the American people,” #Fauci said, adding that he did not pressure colleagues to reach a conclusion about the origins of the virus.
Chinesische Corona-Reporterin nach vier Jahren in Haft freigelassen
Nach Beginn der Corona-Pandemie berichtete die Bürgerreporterin Zhang Zhan aus dem abgeriegelten Wuhan. Deswegen wurde die Anwältin zu vier Jahren im Gefängnis verurteilt. Aktivisten bestätigten nun ihre Freilassung.
A #Chinese woman who served 4 years in #prison over her video reports from #Wuhan during the early days of the #pandemic has been released from a #Shanghai prison facility, following more than a week of online speculation about her whereabouts.
Zhang Zhan, 40 years old, was detained & sentenced by a Chinese court in 2020 after #documenting in more than 120 vids how #Covid19 ravaged the city where the #coronavirus was first detected.
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"Parents of children with #longCovid claim they have been accused of faking or exaggerating their child’s illness, leading to social services’ involvement and... court cases and the threat of the child’s removal from the home."
Warum der Impfstoff Vaxzevria in der EU nicht mehr zugelassen ist
Seit heute ist der Corona-Impfstoff von AstraZeneca in der EU nicht mehr zugelassen. In den sozialen Medien werden Bedenken bei der Sicherheit als Grund gehandelt. Tatsächlich geht es um kommerzielle Interessen. Von L. Bisch.
Chinesischer Corona-Forscher darf zurück ins Labor
Als erster Wissenschaftler sequenzierte er das Corona-Virus und veröffentlichte seine Ergebnisse. Seitdem ringt der Virologe Zhang mit den chinesischen Behörden - zuletzt auch mit tagelangem Protest.
"On a sunny day 7 years ago in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda, researchers were startled to observe chimpanzees scoop dry bat feces from under a hollow tree & devour it. In 60 years of observations at Budongo, no one had ever seen such a thing, recalls veterinary epidemiologist Tony Goldberg of the U of WI —Madison. “Aside from the ick factor, we all had the exact same thought. They must be exposed to horrible bat-borne #viruses.”
That suspicion proved correct. Though the bat feces is rich in nutrients, it contains dozens of previously unknown viruses. These novel pathogens include a new #coronavirus—a relative of the one that causes #COVID-19.
Ordinarily, chimps & other animals in the area get these minerals by eating the pith of the raffia palm.
Local tobacco farmers nearly extirpated the palm to make string to tie up tobacco.
'Thinking about getting a spring-time booster shot? A new study coming out of York University’s Centre for Disease Modelling in the Faculty of Science shows that immunity after a COVID-19 booster lasts much longer than the primary series alone.'
'There is no evidence that mRNA Covid vaccines cause fatal cardiac arrest or other deadly heart problems in teens and young adults, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Thursday shows.
Ever since the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna were authorized in late 2020, anti-vaccination groups in the U.S. have blamed the shots for fatal heart problems in young athletes.'
'Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new vaccine that offers broad protection against not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also other bat sarbecoviruses. The groundbreaking trivalent vaccine has shown complete protection with no trace of virus in the lungs, marking a significant step toward a universal vaccine for coronaviruses.'
Kommentar zu Corona: Kinder und Jugendliche um Verzeihung bitten
Bundesweit wird eine Enquete-Kommission gefordert, um aufzuarbeiten, welche Schlüsse aus der Corona-Krise gezogen werden müssen. Besonders mit Blick auf die Kinder und Jugendlichen ist das bitter nötig, meint Nina Amin.
"What if you could track public health like the weather?"
In our latest blog post, Stamen designer Caroline Carter talks about our work with WastewaterSCAN to make epidemiological charts more usable in our day-to-day lives, like checking a weather report.
#CovidConscious crowd: I’m sure I saw some discussion of techniques for stapling excess #respirator material together under chin to improve fit on small faces …
But I can’t find it now and I don’t want to just start stapling willy-nilly!