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Trump Turns COVID Info Website Into a Promotion Page for ‘Lab Leak’ Theory Pandemic

Trump Turns COVID Info Website Into a Promotion Page for ‘Lab Leak’ Theory

Infectious Disease > COVID-19 — Site used to include information on free tests, vaccines, treatment, and long COVID by Associated Press April 18, 2025 • 2 min read A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing, and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting…
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April 18, 2025
Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory Pandemic

Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

The Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, vaccines, treatment and secondary conditions such as long Covid – with a treatise on the “lab leak” theory. The site includes intense criticism of Dr Anthony Fauci, who helmed national…
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April 18, 2025
Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle. Pandemic

Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle.

Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do surgeries or deliver babies. The small 24-hour emergency room is overseen by two full-time doctors. CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding…
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April 18, 2025
WHO member countries draft landmark preparedness treaty for next pandemic Pandemic

WHO member countries draft landmark preparedness treaty for next pandemic

Wearing protective suits, funeral home workers remove the body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 at a nursing home in Spain in 2020.   -   Copyright © africanews Copyright 2020 The Associated Press/Emilio Morenatti. All rights reserved. Last updated: 16/04 - 17:09 Switzerland After the world’s largely disastrous response to the…
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April 16, 2025
WHO countries strike landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics Pandemic

WHO countries strike landmark agreement on tackling future pandemics

The final stretch of the talks also took place under the shadow of cuts to US foreign aid spending and threatened tariffs on pharmaceuticals. ‘It’s adopted’ Right until the last minute, disagreement lingered over a few thorny issues. Negotiators stumbled over the agreement’s Article 11, which deals with transferring technology…
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April 16, 2025