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One nerdy piece of good news about Omicron: We already have tests that spot signs of the variant
Some run-of-the-mill PCR tests can provide a solid clue that Omicron is present, providing a nice e…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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The US probably has 2,000 Omicron cases already, according to 'dirty math' from a COVID expert who often advises the White House
Dr. Charity Dean, a former top public health official, shared her back-of-the-napkin sums suggestin…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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Southern Africa is not a hotbed of variants — it's just very good at sequencing and spotting them
President Biden said southern Africa's transparency should be "encouraged and applauded," but so fa…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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The NFL's top doctor says vaccinated players who get COVID-19 get better quicker — and back to the field sooner — than their unvaccinated teammates
The NFL's top doctor addressed confusion around vaccinated players getting COVID. He said, if they …
Hilary Brueck  Â
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Blistering CDC report says the agency cannot go on like this it's too slow, not diverse, and not very good at giving public health advice
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is bringing in an outside executive to radically overhaul the nation…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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Fauci rails against 'dark web people' harassing his wife and daughters with violent threats
In a new documentary, Fauci shares just how bad the threats got during the summer of 2020. At one p…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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China spent years angrily trying to shut down the theory that COVID-19 came from its labs. It failed.
The FBI's director, Christopher Wray, has added his support to the theory that COVID-19 originated …
Tom Porter  Â
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Vaccinated US health experts are wearing masks indoors as the Delta variant spreads
You don't have to mask up indoors if you're vaccinated, but many health experts still are. Here's w…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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How a rogue doctor who called the vaccine 'needle rape' was made an Idaho public-health official in its worst COVID crisis yet
The story of Dr Ryan Cole shows how the state's public health apparatus was reshaped by COVID skept…
Mia Jankowicz  Â
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Experts say the FDA ban on Juul e-cigarettes could be the 'opening gun' for a crackdown on the entire industry
Insider spoke with several experts who questioned the FDA's timing in its decision to remove Juul v…
Grace Kay  Â
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From stocking up on pods to slamming the Biden administration, here's how the internet is reacting to the FDA's Juul ban so far
While some celebrated Thursday's FDA ban against Juul, adults who used the product to quit smoking …
Hannah Towey  Â
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Declassified US intelligence report on COVID-19's origins says both natural transmission and lab leak theories remain 'plausible'
"Two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated i…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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43,000 people may have been wrongly told their COVID-19 test was negative because of a lab error in England
A government agency said testing at the Immensa Health Clinic lab had been suspended, pending an in…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce  Â
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A public health professor explains the difference between rapid COVID-19 tests from a pharmacy and the 'gold standard' lab results - and says people should be tested every 3 days
Using a rapid antigen COVID-19 test twice weekly would help protect communities, Iain Buchan told I…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce  Â
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Even if the coronavirus did leak from a Wuhan lab, that wouldn't necessarily mean it was engineered
Researchers in Wuhan collected samples of bat viruses closely related to the coronavirus prior to t…
Aylin Woodward  Â
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A 'more rapidly spreading virus' is fueling India's mega COVID-19 surge, WHO chief scientist says
"B 1.617 is likely to be a variant of concern because it has some mutations which increase transmis…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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A fully vaccinated mom caught COVID-19 after her kids went to summer camp: 'Our kids are Trojan-horsing us'
Hilary Young and three other fully vaccinated adults in her family got sick after one of her girls'…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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6 fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding caught the Delta variant, but people with Pfizer and Moderna shots survived, study says
The infections among attendees of a 92-person wedding in April were in people over 50, a study says…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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A leading US disease expert says there's 'no doubt in my mind' that vaccinated people are helping spread Delta
Christopher Murray, director of the IHME, which the White House leans on for COVID-19 data, says we…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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A lab leak in Wuhan remains a 'viable' theory for the coronavirus' origin, an international group of scientists says
The coronavirus' origin remains a mystery. So the idea that it was accidentally released from a lab…