The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is urging residents of 10 of the state’s counties to cancel or postpone outdoor events after dusk to prevent people from contracting the rare and dangerous mosquito-borne illness eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) after an adult from Barry County is believed to […]
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Every once in a great, great while, life is more delicious than you’d dared to hope. I was reading early Wednesday afternoon about what may be the big scoop from Bob Woodward’s new book on the Trump administration: that on February 7, while Trump was pooh-poohing the virus publicly, he […]
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Sept. 8. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bloomberg via Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Sept. 8. Bloomberg via Getty Images No reader should skip […]
New research has discovered that coronavirus tests may be finding traces of dead virus cells from weeks-old infections, resulting in false positives that inflate the scale of the pandemic. The study was carried out by experts from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of the […]
This negative-stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts the ultrastructural details of an influenza virus particle, or “virion”. A member of the taxonomic family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza virus is a single-stranded RNA organism. Frederick Murphy/CDC hide caption toggle caption Frederick Murphy/CDC This negative-stained transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts the ultrastructural details […]
Navajo Nation And White Mountain Apache Tribe Chase Down A Virus By Kalen Goodluck, High Country News. August 30, 2020 Navajo Nation And White Mountain Apache Tribe Chase Down A Virus2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/navajo-e1598812914890.jpg200px200px Above photo: ABC News. Contact-tracing programs in two areas hit hardest by COVID-19 are working. On a mild morning […]
EcoHealth Alliance is one of 11 recipients of funds to set up the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. But the grant won’t let them revisit earlier research on bats and coronavirus. (Image credit: NHPA/NHPA/Science Source) Source link
An illustration of the poliovirus, which causes polio (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Wild Polio Virus is Eradicated in Africa Polio continues to be transmitted in just two countries in the world: Pakistan and Afghanistan. https://t.co/WAtDBlZW09 — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) August 27, 2020 In just a few hours, #Africa […]
Researchers say initial findings suggest that a substance found in insect repellent may be effective in battling coronavirus, months after it was revealed that the British military was experimenting with the unusual prophylactic. Scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) believe that Citriodiol, a product made using oil […]
A highly contagious virus spreading rapidly through a crowded indoor space populated by individuals who sometimes put their own interests ahead of those of their fellow man, and a quarantine zone-enforcing government that offers false assurances that everything’s okay and everyone is safe—2016’s Train to Busan is a modern zombie […]
The fatality rate associated with COVID-19 is falling in most US states, according to an analysis by The Hill. According to the outlet, the case fatality rate of COVID-19 has been declining for weeks in most US states. In Arizona, for instance, around 5% of people who tested positive for […]
Israel has been dealing with a renewed COVID-19 outbreak, with the Health Ministry urging to avoid the northern Arab Israeli town of Yarka where cases almost quadrupled over the past week, registering one of the highest rates of infection in the country, according to Haaretz. Israel’s National Coronavirus Project Coordinator […]
The Neoliberal Virus By Ben Debney, Counterpunch. August 10, 2020 The Neoliberal Virus2020-08-102020-08-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/10/capitalism_isnt_working_via_popularresistance-e1592851999723.png200px200px To date, and to the extent that alleged political leaders have even tried to come to terms with the origins of the COVID-19 crisis at all, they have sought to do so in xenophobic terms; though not the […]
Guest post by Lawrence Sellin, PhD From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus identified as the causative agent, SARS-CoV-2, has been consistently described as “novel” because of its unique structural features. Also since the onset of the pandemic, the conventional wisdom concerning the origin of SARS-CoV-2 has been […]
There is more than enough evidence today for the American pulic to demand an audit on the legitimacy of the coronavirus numbers.There have been hundreds if not thousands of reports of fraudulent cases. And for some strange reason the CDC demanded America’s doctors count even suspect cases in their coronavirus […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) tested positive for the COVID-19 China coronavirus Wednesday, prompting the Justice Department to announce Attorney General William Barr will get tested after being in contact with Gohmert at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing. Gohmert was tested at the White House for screening to fly with President […]
Scientists estimate that near-universal mask use could make a major difference in bringing down coronavirus infections in the United States. Sean Gardner/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sean Gardner/Getty Images Scientists estimate that near-universal mask use could make a major difference in bringing down coronavirus infections in the United States. […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday evening called the China Coronavirus the “Trump virus” during an appearance on fake news CNN. President Trump held a Coronavirus task force briefing earlier Tuesday for the first time in months. The president said that the pandemic will ‘probably get worse before it […]
The parties, reportedly held and attended by “unsavory” residents, including gang members, are said to have taken place in Florida’s Osceola County. The allegation comes as a majority of US states, including Florida, witness a record resurgence of infections of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Osceola County sheriff’s office has received […]
The pandemic virus is slowly mutating. But is it getting more dangerous? by Kai Kupferschmidt/sciencemag.org It’s only a tiny change. At some point early in the pandemic, one of the 30,000 letters in the genome of SARS-CoV-2 changed from an A to a G. Today, that mutation, at position 23,403, […]
Contact tracing for the coronavirus is the subject of colorful conspiracy theories. In fact, contact tracing is a straightforward process of notifying people if they’ve been exposed to someone who is sick. Hannah Norman/KHN hide caption toggle caption Hannah Norman/KHN Contact tracing for the coronavirus is the subject of colorful […]
By Melissa Bailey and Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News James “Mike” Anderson was a hospital employee in suburban Philadelphia with a low-profile though critical job: changing air filters in COVID patients’ rooms. By late March, new COVID cases in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, had ramped up to as many as 90 […]
President Trump’s former White House Strategist, Steve Bannon, broke the news this afternoon that scientists from the Chinese Institute of Technology in Wuhan have defected to the West with information on China’s actions related to the coronavirus. The Daily Mail reported today: Experts from the Chinese laboratory at the centre of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107973/95/1079739505_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_59aeb695ddbc217334bca608df26a059.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007111079858562-man-dies-after-going-to-a-covid-19-party-to-prove-that-the-virus-was-a-hoax/ The infectious disease, which has killed half a million people and infected almost 13 million. has also sparked numerous rumours and conspiracy theories, the most famous of which is that the disease is a hoax and safety measures introduced by authorities to curb […]