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  • Biden Admin Reportedly Hid Report That Service Members May Have Gotten COVID In Wuhan — In Oct 2019

    04/10/2025 7:07:21 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    DailyWire.com ^ | Apr 8, 2025 | Hank Berrien
    The Biden administration reportedly hid a 2022 report from the Defense Department that stated seven military members might have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, as early as October 2019. The December 2022 report from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness examined “the number of United States athletes and staff who attended the 2019 World Military Games and became ill with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-like symptoms during or shortly after their return to the United States.” It added, “The Department of Defense (DoD) has concluded through correspondence with the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force,...
  • Drug may prevent COVID-19 in exposed people within households, major trial finds

    03/30/2025 10:29:42 AM PDT · by bitt · 22 replies
    https://medicalxpress.com/ ^ | 3/12/2025 | by University of Virginia
    An international clinical trial has identified a medication that can help prevent symptomatic COVID-19 in people exposed within households. The results could be particularly important for families where someone is at high risk of serious complications from the illness. The drug, ensitrelvir, is already approved in Japan to treat mild to moderate COVID cases. The SCORPIO-PEP trial, however, has demonstrated that it also has the potential to protect against illness. Uninfected people who began taking the antiviral within 72 hours of symptoms first appearing in a household member were significantly less likely to contract COVID-19 than people who were given...
  • Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19

    03/07/2025 8:46:35 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 46 replies
    BBC ^ | 3/5/25 | Chris Baraniuk
    Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries didn't impose any lockdown restrictions – so was their decision the right one? In March 2020, billions of people stared out through their windows at a world they no longer recognised. Suddenly confined to their homes, their lives had shrunk abruptly to four walls and computer screens. Around the world, national leaders appeared on television, telling them to stay put – only leave the house to buy essential supplies or for once-daily exercise, maybe. It was a last-ditch...
  • Cases of new Covid variant LP.8.1 double in UKExperts say the new variant is 'under monitoring' as it spreads rapidly, reaching 23 countries already

    03/15/2025 10:33:04 AM PDT · by Vendome · 29 replies
    Wales Online ^ | 3/14/2025 | Neil Shaw
    A new Covid variant is causing thousands of infections with experts warning it has the potential to spread rapidly - and the number of cases it has caused in the UK has doubled in the last few weeks. The World Health Organisation says the new variant - LP.8.1 - is one of two designated a Variant Under Monitoring, the other being XEC. It has already been detected in 23 countries. XEC accounts for around half of all infections with Covid, and the recently detected LP.8.1 is already responsible for around 10 per cent of infections in some places - and...
  • Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as Covid-19

    02/21/2025 10:30:16 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    South China Morning Post via MSN ^ | 02/21/2025 | Victoria Bela
    Research was led by Shi Zhengli, a virologist known as the 'batwoman', who is best known for her work on coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi Zhengli - a leading virologist known as the "batwoman" due to her extensive research on bat coronaviruses - at the Guangzhou Laboratory along with researchers from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology....
  • New coronavirus with potential to cause pandemic discovered in China

    02/21/2025 10:14:53 AM PST · by Strict9 · 20 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2-21-25 | Alexa Lardieri
    The new virus is even closer related to MERS, a deadlier type of coronavirus that kills up to a third of people it infects. Virologist Shi Zhengli, known as 'Batwoman' for her work on coronaviruses, led the discovery, published in a top scientific journal. Tests showed HKU5-CoV-2 infiltrated human cells in the same way as SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid. Sharing their discovery in the journal Cell, the Beijing-funded researchers admitted it posed a 'high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts.'
  • Everyone is talking about it privately so I’m just going to put it out there publicly: a lot of people think China dropped WuFlu 2 on D.C. during inauguration.

    02/03/2025 4:39:32 PM PST · by hardspunned · 61 replies
    X ^ | 2/3/25 | Sean Davis
    What everyone’s been down with for the last two weeks isn’t as bad as the OG Covid, but it’s weird in similar ways.
  • Covid Stimulus Sends $135m To Nepal

    12/21/2020 9:18:04 PM PST · by Helicondelta · 53 replies
    The_Real_Fly ^ | Dec 22, 2020
  • C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

    01/25/2025 2:43:02 PM PST · by Jim Noble · 54 replies
    New York Times ^ | January 25, 2025 | Julian E. Barnes
    The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory. There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing over for months. The analysis, however, is based in part on a closer look at the conditions in the high security...
  • Trump cuts off security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci

    01/24/2025 9:29:39 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 52 replies
    NY Post ^ | 1/24/2025 | Josh Christenson
    Dr. Anthony Fauci had his taxpayer-funded security detail pulled, President Trump confirmed during a press conference Friday. -snip- “We took some off other people too,” he noted, apparently referring to former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “They can hire their own security too. … I can give them some good numbers of very good security people,” Trump added. “Fauci made a lot of money. They all did.”
  • Anthony Fauci Responds to Joe Biden's Pardon

    01/21/2025 8:36:12 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 77 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 1/20/25 | Andrew Stanton
    What To Know Fauci responded to the preemptive pardon in a statement reported by CNN's Jim Acosta. "It feels good and I'm grateful to the president for doing it," he told Acosta. "I have done nothing wrong. Certainly nothing criminal. No grounds at all." Fauci said the White House told him in December that Biden was considering a preemptive pardon, but that he did not know it was actually happening "until last night," Acosta posted on X, formerly Twitter. Newsweek reached out to Fauci via Georgetown University for comment
  • The New Virus – Unknown & Mysterious Again

    01/06/2025 7:26:14 PM PST · by delta7 · 82 replies
    Armstrong Economics ^ | 6 Jan 25 | Martin Armstrong
    Hope all is well and Happy New Year. Are you keeping track of this new virus going around in China? Is is apparently in the Ukraine now too? Any updates? Could this be what the 9th of January was targeting? Disease and War cycle? ANSWER: I am aware of this new virus. I went to see my doctor, who, when she asked me if I got vaccinated, I said NO! Her response was GOOD! She is actually from Sereavo, and oddly, I knew I looked familiar since I had advised the government there about the breakup of Yugoslavia. She believes...
  • Trump says he has been in contact with one of the U.S.' biggest adversaries before taking office

    01/06/2025 10:42:13 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/6/2025 | Emily Goodin
    Donald Trump revealed on Monday that he has been in contact with one of the United States' biggest adversaries ahead of taking the oath of office. The president-elect told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he and his team have been speaking with representatives of Chinese President Xi Jinping. 'We've already been talking,' he said. 'We've been talking through their representatives.' Trump, who takes office on January 20, said he believes he and Xi will get along well. He had invited the Chinese leader to his inauguration but Xi declined. 'We will probably get along very well, I predict,' the president-elect...
  • Public health experts are warning of a ‘quad-demic’ this winter. Here’s where flu, COVID, RSV, and norovirus are spreading

    01/02/2025 2:42:47 PM PST · by yesthatjallen · 82 replies
    Fortune via Yahoo ^ | 01 02 2025 | Lindsey Leake
    As you deck the halls and traverse afar this holiday season, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness into the new year. Flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and norovirus are making their winter rounds nationwide, and you may have heard the term “quad-demic” pop up online or in conversation (the first three are sometimes called a “triple-demic”). While the unofficial term for the four maladies circulating in tandem evokes a sense of impending doom, the quadruple threat isn’t so different from respiratory virus seasons past. “All of...
  • Intelligence community’s COVID-19 origins division ran deeper than previously thought

    12/27/2024 9:40:16 AM PST · by george76 · 9 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | December 26, 2024 | Gabrielle M. Etzel
    Debate within the intelligence community over the origins of COVID-19 ran much deeper than previously known, particularly within the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency. Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, a branch of the Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific investigation in the summer of 2021, concluding that COVID-19 was likely manipulated in a biolaboratory. But the information was suppressed by the Pentagon and not included in White House briefings on the virus, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The origins of SARS-CoV-2 are still hotly contested almost exactly five years after the start...
  • COVID vaccines worsen outcomes after heart attacks in patients with prior infection, study suggests

    10/02/2024 9:41:49 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 21 replies
    JustTheNew.com ^ | 09/29/2024 | no byline
    Global research already suggests the risk of COVID-19 infection rises with each mRNA vaccine dose and a higher risk of heart inflammation in jabbed young people, especially males, who face a low risk from COVID itself. Now a three-year study of nearly 1,000 heart attack patients at a hospital in Spain, published in a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal this month, suggests vaccination makes them far more likely to have "major adverse cardiovascular events" including death within six months of their heart attacks, especially when they've also recovered from COVID infection. The Madrid-based researchers found "no significant association," however, between MACE and...
  • Remdesivir Quietly Gets Recalled and We Have Questions

    09/27/2024 6:40:53 AM PDT · by CFW · 70 replies
    Liberty Daily ^ | 9/27/24 | Publius
    Covid “truthers” have spent the last four years talking about the ineffective and deadly vaccines. We often tout the efficacy of Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. We say Covid is basically the flu, that it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and not from bat soup, and that Anthony Fauci should be jailed. But one of the biggest Covid stories that doesn’t get nearly enough attention is the conspiracy to push remdesivir onto as many Americans as possible. Now, the drug has been recalled and none of it makes sense. As Dr. Simone Gold noted: Gilead Sciences has announced a recall...
  • Americans can order free COVID-19 tests beginning this month

    09/22/2024 3:28:17 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 28 replies
    ABC ^ | 9/22/24 | Associated Press
    WASHINGTON -- Starting this month, Americans will be able to order free COVID-19 test kits that will be mailed to their homes. U.S. households will be able to order as many as four nasal swab tests at COVIDTests.gov when the federal program reopens. The U.S. Health and Human Services agency overseeing the program has not yet given an exact date when ordering can begin. An agency spokesperson has said the tests will detect current virus strains and can be ordered ahead of the holiday season, when families and friends gather for celebrations.
  • Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

    09/16/2024 1:12:56 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 31 replies
    Reason ^ | October 2024 | Christian Britschgi
    America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.In June 2024, Anthony Fauci appeared before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic for a contentious confrontation with congressional Republicans. But it opened on what might have sounded like an amicable note, as the subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R–Ohio), played up Fauci's sainted status: "There were drinks named after you. You got bobbleheads made in your likeness. You were on the cover of Vogue. You threw out the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game." Fauci was...
  • ‘I grieve for the person I was before' - Covid inquiry to begin new phase

    09/09/2024 7:28:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 17 replies
    BBC ^ | 09/08/2024 | Jim Reed & Nat Wright
    The public inquiry into the pandemic will start 10 weeks of hearings on Monday looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider NHS. Covid patients have been admitted to hospital more than a million times in the UK since the virus emerged in 2020, while countless others have had care for other conditions disrupted. The third stage of the inquiry will also examine the impact on NHS staff, the use of masks and PPE in hospitals, the policy of shielding the most vulnerable and the treatment of long Covid. And for the first time, the stories of...