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    Global report: Fauci warns of 'needless death' as WHO urges vigilance in lifting lockdowns

    Health body says coronavirus restrictions must be eased carefully; Iran to reopens mosques; China reports one new case Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Employees of the Ciudad de Dios market wait to be tested by coronavirus workers at the health ministry in Lima. Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images The World […] More

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    No, 5G Didn’t Cause the Coronavirus Pandemic

    What a strange, twisted time we’re all experiencing at the moment. It would be bad enough if all we had to contend with was a novel virus, a lockdown and a projected 12 to 18-month wait for a vaccine. Unfortunately, there are those among us who are indulging in the spread of misinformation. President Donald […] More

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    Wuhan: The Same Evidence Can Be Enormous or Nonexistent

    In a May 6 article in Forbes with the title, “Pompeo Backtracks About Wuhan Lab: The Latest In The Controversial Coronavirus Origin Theory,” Jack Brewster provides a detailed timeline of the debate relating to the hypothesis that the novel coronavirus originated in a Wuhan laboratory. The first entry in the timeline is dated January 26 […] More

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    Debunking Trump’s China Nonsense

    Conspiracy theorists never let a crisis go to waste. When something truly terrible happens, the conspiracy theorist sets to work to determine the dark, hidden forces at work behind the scenes that have produced the crisis. Some people might see God or the Devil as the prime mover behind a catastrophe. Others throw up their […] More

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    Global Health Policy Is World Politics

    Border closures, lockdowns, competition for medical equipment, export bans — at the beginning of the health crisis, states in Europe and around the world were primarily concerned with implementing national measures and interests to contain COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This discernible lack of solidarity and commitment to international cooperation among key […] More

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    Should the American Way of Life Be a War on American Life?

    On March 16, French President Emmanuel Macron was the first head of state to declare war in the battle against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. In a televised address to the French nation, he repeated the phrase “we are at war” as obsessively as Cato the Elder more than two millennia ago, who insisted […] More

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    Will We Ever Know the True Origin of COVID-19?

    There has been much debate around the world about the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from its origin in a laboratory or at Wuhan’s seafood market or some other form of animal-to-human transmission. While there is no proof (yet) that the virus may have been inadvertently released from one of the two biological research […] More

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    Trump poised to wind down Covid-19 taskforce as US death toll tops 70,000

    Pence says federal agencies could take over response in coming weeks as Trump acknowledges ‘some people will be affected’ Coronavirus – latest US updates Coronavirus – latest global updates See all our coronavirus coverage Donald Trump answers a question as Dr Deborah Birx and the health department’s under secretary for science and technology, William Bryan, […] More