COVID Shutdowns Should Be ‘Temporary,’ Chinese Lockdowns ‘Draconian,’ Lab Leak ‘Possible’: Fauci
Anthony Fauci, the outgoing medical adviser for President Joe Biden, criticized China’s handling of COVID-related shutdowns in recent interviews, and...
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Ending China’s extreme COVID policy could cause a health disaster
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Nearly three years into a pandemic that has killed more than 6.6 million people worldwide, the official death...
Life-insurance payouts hit record $100 billion in 2021 | Mint
U.S. life insurers paid a record $100 billion in 2021 in death benefits, fueled by another year of Covid-19 deaths,...
Twitter’s policy on misleading COVID-19 information is ‘no longer in effect’
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US warns Beijing it can’t control Covid-19 without western jabs
Beijing will be unable to control the spread of Covid-19 unless it imports foreign-made vaccines that are more effective than...
China’s Covid tsar says fight against virus entering ‘new stage’
China’s top zero-Covid enforcer says the fight against the virus has entered a “new stage” while state media have downplayed...
How rampant abuse by fintech fueled covid relief fraud
“The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology...
Long Covid costs patients an average $9,000 a year in medical expenses
The Covid-19 unit at United Memorial Medical Center in north Houston.Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesLong Covid...
Executives at ‘fintechs’ made hundreds of millions handing out PPP Covid cash, report says
A couple who founded an Arizona-based financial technology firm in the early days of the pandemic raked in an estimated...
Twitter stops COVID info moderation, health experts are concerned
Twitter’s decision to stop enforcing its policy against COVID-19 falsehoods has alarmed Bay Area public health experts who worry the...