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Dr. Deborah Birx, a former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Donald Trump, told CNN on Tuesday that there was an effort to squash scientists suggesting the COVID-19 virus started in a lab in Wuhan, China. “I think early on, people did take very definitive sides, and it did divide along party lines, and we’re still suffering from that four …

A liberal New York Times columnist admitted Tuesday that those in the media and public health sphere were initially “too dismissive” of the COVID-19 lab leak theory. Times columnist Nicholas Kristof commented on an X post by Alina Chan, a scientific advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She offered further commentary on her recent Times guest piece, …

Fox News host Laura Ingraham said the U.S. will be paying for the “Fauci effect” for a generation, “perhaps more.” The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci testified before Congress Monday about pandemic-era restrictions like social distancing and mask mandates. LAURA INGRAHAM: PUTIN MUST BE ‘LAUGHING’ WATCHING JUDGE MERCHAN RUN HIS COURTROOM LIKE …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Monday denied attempting to suppress the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, during his opening statement before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Lawmakers proceeded to grill Fauci throughout the hearing on …

The top U.S. health official said on Wednesday it would be “tragic” for the world to miss out on key reforms to the global pandemic response and that a treaty deal was within reach, with no major differences between negotiators. Health officials are meeting in Geneva this week to try to wrap up more than two years of negotiations on …

Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military servicepeople to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a mandate that had been in place since late 2021, the government said Wednesday. People serving with the German military, the Bundeswehr, are required to get vaccinations against a number of diseases — including measles, mumps and flu — so long as individuals have no specific …

Western countries led by the United States, France and Germany pushed for a deal to bolster pandemic response rules at a major World Health Organization meeting on Tuesday after states failed to finalize a pandemic treaty. No agreement was reached on the treaty last week in time for this week’s World Health Assembly, with deep divisions and occasional acrimony between …

A distraught mother of three, who lost her only two sons in tragic circumstances, is making a desperate appeal to the public to help find her only daughter – who has been missing for over six weeks. Sue Quackenbush, 63, says her 37-year-old daughter Danielle Lopez vanished on April 13 under suspicious circumstances after she was last seen at a …

EcoHealth Alliance – the disgraced research firm accused of using taxpayer funds to conduct gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab before the COVID-19 pandemic began – received nearly $100 million from the federal government over the past decade and a half. From FY 2008 to FY 2024, the U.S. government provided EcoHealth Alliance an estimated $94.3 million in taxpayer funds …

Two dozen Republican governors don’t want the World Health Organization (WHO) to call the shots in the case of another global pandemic, according to a letter they sent to President Biden this week. Currently, there are two proposals under negotiation that would grant WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional” authority in the U.S., according to the Republican Governors Association. “If adopted, these …