Annual Report to the Nation Part 2: New cancer diagnoses fell abruptly early in the COVID-19 pandemic (www.nih.gov)
Findings suggest that many cancers were not being diagnosed in a timely manner.
Paraguay wants its money back from the World Health Organization's COVAX mechanism (en.mercopress.com)
Paraguay's Health Minister María Teresa Barán criticized the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX mechanism for distributing vaccines against Covid-19 worldwide and refused to accept the next batch from the global agency....
CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak theory, anonymous whistleblower claims (www.science.org)
Agency denies allegation as congressional panel demands information from CIA probe into pandemic’s start
“They Were Everywhere” – Exploding Monkey and Pig Populations Pose Human Disease Risk (scitechdaily.com)
Rising numbers of wild pigs and macaque monkeys in Southeast Asia pose risks to native forests and could lead to disease spread among livestock and humans, reveals a study led by The University of Queensland. Dr. Matthew Luskin, affiliated with UQ's School of the Environment, alongside his team,
‘Blight’ warns that a future pandemic could start with a fungus (www.sciencenews.org)
‘The Last of Us’ is fiction, but the health dangers posed by fungi are real, a new book explains.
LA Tenants Have Until Aug. 1 to Pay 18 Months of Covid Back Rent (therealdeal.com)
Tenant advocates want the city to cancel rent debts or add further protections. Under a tenant protection package passed early this year, tenants have until Aug. 1 to repay the debts incurred between March 1, 2020 and Sept. 1, 2021
Analysis: Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout (arstechnica.com)
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
A new device can detect the coronavirus in the air in minutes (www.sciencenews.org)
The detector can sense as a few as seven to 35 coronavirus particles per liter of air — about as sensitive as a PCR test but much quicker.
Utah jury convicts former Olympian in pandemic bailout trial (www.fox13now.com)
A federal jury convicted a former Olympic speedskater in a trial focused on the $10 million her company received from the Paycheck Protection Program.
Eviction filings are 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic in some cities as rents rise (apnews.com)
Eviction filings are far above pre-pandemic levels in many cities across the country as pandemic relief disappears and inflation causes rents to spike. According to the latest data from the Eviction Lab, filings in some cities are running as much as 50% above levels seen prior to the pandemic. Those numbers are especially stark,...
The Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people in Europe during the 14th century. It's estimated to have killed 30-60% of the European population (en.wikipedia.org)
