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What is causing the 'white lung' pneumonia spike in China and the US? How worried should you be? And what is mycoplasma? Everything we know about the outbreaks so far

Nearly two weeks ago, news broke of an outbreak of a ‘mysterious’ pneumonia in China affecting children. While the spread began in May, the world only learned about it last week, prompting the World…

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Not now Covid! CDC says it's tracking a NEW coronavirus variant that has tripled in a month (but is still mild and NOT more likely to kill)

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Not now Covid! CDC says it's tracking a NEW coronavirus variant that has tripled in a month (but is still mild and NOT more likely to kill)

A new Covid variant is spreading across the US, but experts have urged people not to panic. BA.2.86 is a mutation on the Omicron BA.2 subvariant and is responsible for almost…

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Covid WAS clearly the result of genetic engineering in China. If the inquiry refuses to consider this, the hearings are pointless, says leading scientist PROF ANGUS DALGLEISH

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Covid WAS clearly the result of genetic engineering in China. If the inquiry refuses to consider this, the hearings are pointless, says leading scientist PROF ANGUS DALGLEISH

The phrase is straight out of Yes Minister. Michael Gove’s evidence to the Covid Inquiry on Tuesday was cut off for straying into what a smooth-talking Government lawyer deemed ‘a…

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Congress demands CDC hands over everything it knows about China's mystery pneumonia outbreak

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Congress demands CDC hands over everything it knows about China's mystery pneumonia outbreak

A Congressional committee sent a scathing letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demanding it be more transparent regarding the mysterious outbreak of pneumonia in China, stressing the agency…

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CDC data shows US life expectancy crept up to 77.5 in 2022 - which is still lower than CHINA and most of the developed world

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CDC data shows US life expectancy crept up to 77.5 in 2022 – which is still lower than CHINA and most of the developed world

Life expectancy rose by a mere one year in 2022 as the US exited the Covid crisis – but it means Americans still die younger than those in most of…

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Is China's 'mystery pneumonia' sweeping Europe? Netherlands sees alarming surge in similar illness among children - as terrifying video shows hazmat-clad workers in China disinfecting schools

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Is China's 'mystery pneumonia' sweeping Europe? Netherlands sees alarming surge in similar illness among children – as terrifying video shows hazmat-clad workers in China disinfecting schools

An alarming spike in pneumonia cases among children has been detected in the Netherlands, mirroring a similar surge in China. Dutch health experts say a striking number have been sickened…

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Top White House health official says it's 'certainly possible' China KILLED researcher who started the Covid pandemic by throwing him off Wuhan lab roof

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Top White House health official says it's 'certainly possible' China KILLED researcher who started the Covid pandemic by throwing him off Wuhan lab roof

A retired high-ranking health official revealed a Wuhan scientist secretly working on a Covid vaccine months before the pandemic broke out could have caused the global crisis and then been murdered…

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Another viral cover-up or the effects of China's draconian lockdowns? Everything we know about the mystery pneumonia surge that Beijing hid for five MONTHS

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Another viral cover-up or the effects of China's draconian lockdowns? Everything we know about the mystery pneumonia surge that Beijing hid for five MONTHS

The eyes of the world are once again locked on China as it suffers another mysterious respiratory outbreak that is overwhelming hospitals. Chaotic scenes of mask-wearing crowds in hospitals in Beijing have eerie…

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Latest figures from the CDC show that RSV infections and flu activity are climbing, as COVID hospitalizations appear to be seeing an uptick

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America's winter flu nightmare: Triple-threat of seasonal sickness, COVID and re-charged RSV to infect more people than ever as doctors warn 'it's going to be a new normal'

Doctors have warned Americans to prepare for a nightmare winter made up of a cocktail of seasonal sicknesses including the flu, COVID, and re-charged RSV. The Center for Disease Control…

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In the newly-published study, which was actually conducted between 2016 and 2017, scientists collected samples from 20 different bat species in the Yunnan and Guangdong provinces - 994 miles and 620 miles away, respectively, from the Covid-19 pandemic epicenter of Wuhan

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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists find a NEW bat coronavirus linked to pangolins that has same freak mutation as Covid – and some experts say it shoots down the lab leak theory

The discovery of a new wild coronavirus that has the same freak mutation as Covid-19 is being hailed by some scientists as proof Sars-CoV-2 was not made in a lab.…

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Dame Angela McLean, who this year succeeded Sir Patrick Vallance as No10's chief scientific adviser, said the measure would not have been as 'damaging'. Circuit-breakers — a tight set of restrictions imposed for a fixed period of time — would also have avoided creating a 'panicky situation', she told the Covid inquiry

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UK 'could have avoided harsh lockdowns': Short circuit-breakers 'work better' than prolonged restrictions, top scientist claims

The UK could have been spared from ‘long, harsh’ Covid lockdowns if officials had imposed short circuit-breakers, the Government’s top scientist claimed today. Dame Angela McLean, who this year succeeded Sir…

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The first email to Government a new 'undiagnosed pneumonia ' in China, sent by Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, has been published by the Covid Inquiry

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The email that alerted the UK's top scientists to Covid: Jonathan Van-Tam warned of Wuhan outbreak of 'viral pneumonia in China' in January 2020

The first email that alerted UK Government officials to the threat of new ‘undiagnosed pneumonia’ in China has been published by the Covid Inquiry. It was sent by Professor Sir…

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Professor Sir Jonathan, England's former deputy chief medical officer – who quit his role in March 2022 — became a household name during the Government's response to the health emergency and is known for his calm demeanour and regular use of analogies

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Jonathan Van-Tam urged to flee home by police after his family received death threats during the pandemic, Covid Inquiry told

Jonathan Van-Tam was urged to flee his home by police after his family received death threats during the pandemic, the Covid inquiry heard. England’s former deputy chief medical officer –…

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Francis Collins, director of National Institutes of Health in 2009. Collins said warnings of dangerous genetically engineered viruses were 'science fiction'

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US researchers found 'serious safety concerns' at Wuhan's coronavirus lab in 2017 three years BEFORE pandemic – but were censored to shield China from criticism, shock new documents show

Warnings from US researchers about genetically engineered viruses at China’s bat lab were raised years before the Covid-19 pandemic, but were ignored or censored. Newly obtained records show how an NIH…

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In January 2022, Fleur Senior (right), from Banstead, Surrey, contracted Covid-19

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How common viruses can make the body attack the brain – and leave you facing a trauma of twitching and hallucinations

Two years ago Fleur Senior, then 14, was considered by her teachers to be on course to read maths at Oxford University. A bright child, she was also the fun-loving…

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The Wellness Company sells a $299.99 'wellness emergency kit' filled with drugs like ivermectin and doxycycline, to fight Covid as well as a host of other conditions

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MAGA Goop! Introducing the new far-right wellness website that sells $299 covid 'treatments' and says vaccines cause cancer

A group of far-right health experts and Trump supporters have backed a new, Goop-style wellness brand that promotes spurious medical treatments. The venture, called The Wellness Company, features articles about…

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Addressing the Covid Inquiry, No10's former chief scientific adviser said it was the 'most important lesson' he learned during the pandemic

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UK lockdown needed to be 'earlier, harder and broader', Sir Patrick Vallance says but admits there was no scientific basis behind 'rule of six'

Covid lockdowns should have been ‘harder’, ‘broader’ and introduced ‘earlier’, Sir Patrick Vallance hinted today. Addressing the Covid Inquiry, No10’s former chief scientific adviser said it was the ‘most important…

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Doctors are not certain why exactly this procedure was so effective for regaining sense of smell, but there is a prevailing hypothesis that injecting and numbing some of the sympathetic nerve tissue recalibrates the body's nervous system to pre-Covid condition. Photo courtesy of Nevada Comprehensive Pain Center

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Doctors FINALLY develop a treatment for loss of smell and taste caused by Covid

Doctors have identified a treatment for people whose sense of smell and taste was warped by Covid. The 10-minute procedure sees a doctor inject a steroid into a collection of…

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Sir Patrick said: 'I had no intention whatsoever of these ever seeing the light of day or me looking at them again and sort of felt the world had probably had enough of books of reflections of people's thoughts during Covid'

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Matt Hancock had a 'habit of saying things' which weren't true, Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry as he calls shamed ex-Health Secretary 'over-enthusiastic'

Matt Hancock had a ‘habit’ of saying things which were not true during Covid, Sir Patrick Vallance claimed today. No10’s ex-chief scientist, tasked with advising ministers throughout the pandemic, blamed…

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'There is no such thing as "the" science': Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry ministers were 'completely wrong' to hide behind the 'following the science' term during pandemic

Sir Patrick Vallance today said it was ‘completely wrong’ that ministers hid behind their insistence that they were simply ‘following the science’ during Covid. Addressing the Covid Inquiry, No10’s ex-chief…

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