COVID
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship due to arrive at Rotterdam port as final destination
Crew, passengers who already left the ship, and people in contact with them have been quarantined in several countries around the world.
RFK Jr.’s health department ordered withdrawal of studies showing vaccine efficiency - report
North Korea executions more than doubled after COVID, human rights group says
Aliyah in wartime Israel: Building a new home, opening an English bookstore
COVID-19 likely originated in Chinese lab leak, US Energy Dept. says - report
Claims that a lab leak in China led to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been circulating for years, but they remain a subject of considerable dispute.
Researchers may have found path to a natural cure for COVID-19 - study
Researchers prepared human cell cultures and infected some of them with ACE2. In the cells treated with the amino acid, ACE2 was found to have not spread as much.
Brazil's vaccine-skeptic Bolsonaro got the shot, document indicates
There is concern that the vaccination card might have been altered
‘Hindsight is 20/20’: Israel's lessons after 3 years of COVID-19
HEALTH AFFAIRS: On Israel’s three-year COVID anniversary, ‘czars’ look forward and back.
On This Day in 1900: Bubonic plague infects San Francisco
This was the first case of the plague in the continental US, and it hasn't left since. This event was defined by government denials of a pandemic, racism and discrediting medical officials.
Anti-vaccine activism melded with US antisemitism - study
This phenomenon is occurring through an “enabled and empowered anti-science ecosystem, with antisemitism and the targeting of Jewish biomedical scientists at its core.”
US CDC still looking at potential stroke risk from Pfizer bivalent COVID shot
FDA officials said they had not detected a link between the shots and strokes in two other safety monitoring databases.
90 seconds to midnight: World closer to doomsday than ever - Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock is now 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to a global catastrophe.
In China, doctors say they are discouraged from citing COVID on death certificates
Chinese medical professionals felt they needed to doctor the truth.
A surprising effect: People wearing masks may have trouble identifying other faces
It's obviously harder to identify someone with a mask - but apparently, it is also harder to identify someone else while wearing a mask yourself!
