Coronavirus
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CDC shrugs when asked for COVID vaccine safety data at advisory committee meeting on updated jabs
"The COVID cartel’s cover-up continues," Senate investigations Chair Ron Johnson says. FDA's advisers have repeatedly complained about the Biden and Trump administrations withholding data when they evaluate new COVID jabs.
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'Stunning betrayal': Feds asks SCOTUS to ignore healthcare workers fired for refusing COVID jab
Trump supporters taken aback by DOJ arguing New York's mandate didn't violate Title VII because fired workers had requested "complete" exemption on religious grounds. "Word salad of nonsense," vaccine injury lawyer responds.
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Fauci infected intelligence community in COVID origin probe but it was consensual: whistleblower
CIA management overruled analysts' conclusions in favor of lab leak, retaliated when they protested "middle-of-the-night, anonymous rewrite" of their work, Gabbard's task force member says. CIA blasts Rand Paul for "bad faith" hearing.
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Air National Guard board finds military's shaky COVID vax mandate unlawful, as West Point holds out
The unanimous decision by the Air National Guard board sets a precedent for future tests of the Pentagon's teetering vaccine mandate.
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You Vote: Should a special investigator be appointed to look into Fauci's handling of COVID-19?
Sen. Rand Paul calls Fauci a 'disreputable' scientist and says he strongly believes COVID originated from a lab leak.
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Sen. Rand Paul calls Fauci 'disreputable' scientist, seeks special investigator for COVID-19 origin
The Kentucky lawmaker, himself a doctor, said that he strongly believes COVID originated from a leak in a lab, citing a long history of lab leaks in China.
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Second looks: Peer-reviewed research questions mask study, finds hydroxychloroquine benefit
"Staff behavior" in Bangladesh mask study "caused large and statistically significant imbalances in population sizes," peer-reviewed study says. Hydroxychloroquine "blocks SARS-CoV-2 entry" into the pathway favored by Omicron, another finds.
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One-size-fits-all COVID booster policy undermined by US, UK government research
"No clear difference in the risk for ICU admission or in-hospital death" between vaxxed and unvaxxed, CDC-led study finds.
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Fauci: 'We don't have time to do a clinical trial' for updated COVID-19 boosters
"We need to get the vaccine out now," Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
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CDC fed Facebook unsupported information on COVID-19 vaccines, emails show
There is little, if any evidence, from the testing process to support the CDC's message to Facebook
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Israeli researchers cast doubt on bats as COVID-19 source
"Bats have a highly effective immune system that enables them to deal relatively easily with viruses considered lethal for other mammals," Tel Aviv University researchers say.
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U.C. Berkeley: Masks optional for COVID, but students must mask up if they're not vaxxed against flu
Masks still "strongly recommended" indoors.
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FDA likely to approve new COVID boosters as early as Wednesday: Report
Experts have pushed for release of Omicron-specific injections.