covid 19
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The COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Connect You To The Internet, The Australian Government Assures Us
The Australian government has helpfully confirmed that the COVID-19 vaccines won’t connect you to the internet as part of their attempts to dispel myths about the jab. When people think misinformation and conspiracy theories, they often think of complicated and sophisticated attempts to mislead or confuse. Sometimes they’re based on misreadings of hard-to-understand scientific literature…
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The Covid-19 Lab Escape Theory Is About to Be Everywhere
In an interview set to be aired in full this Monday, Robert Redfield, former director of the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention under Trump, has become the latest and most mainstream voice so far to offer support for a controversial but not implausible theory about the origins of the covid-19 pandemic: that the…
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The Worst of the Pandemic Is Truly Behind Us
This week, the United States will have passed an important milestone in the covid-19 pandemic: 100 million vaccine doses administered in the country, with over 60 million Americans having gotten one or more doses of the vaccines developed by Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson.
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5 Strategies To Prepare Us for the Next Pandemic
While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are already preparing for the next one. After all, biologists are certain another dangerous new pathogen will emerge sooner or later. We are public health researchers engaged in both leading public health disaster response and evaluating emergency management. Here…