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Omicron Is the "Fastest Spreading Virus In History," Experts Say
If it seems like everyone you know is catching COVID-19 now, you’re not alone. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has caused a surge in cases that has disrupted nearly every facet of everyday life...
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Elon Musk Says He Took His Children to Watch the Common Folk Hoard Supplies...
Let Them Have Toilet Paper In the world's best example of "two wrongs don't make a right," Elon Musk says he took his kids to Walmart to watch the plebeians of the world panic-buy toilet paper. Musk...
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Bill Gates Says Yet Another Pandemic Is Coming
It's not even March yet and 2022 is already exhausting. Another pandemic on the way when the one we're in isn't yet over? it sounds terrifying, but mega billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates...
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Haven't We Suffered Enough? There's a New COVID Outbreak in China
In a grim turn of events, a new outbreak of COVID-19 has appeared in two of China’s largest cities, resulting in fresh lockdowns and a sobering reminder that the global pandemic is still very much in...
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Doctors Alarmed by Strange Disease in Children
Oh, great. Scientists say there may be a new disease making the rounds, and it's endangering children. A new study, published in the journal Eurosurveillance this week, found that hepatitis, meaning...
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COVID Cases Keep Rising in China in Spite of Huge Crackdown
China's COVID zero policy isn't exactly going as planned. According to a new Bloomberg report published Friday, COVID-19 cases are still on the rise and causing civilian deaths despite strict lockdown...
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Dr. Fauci Says the "Pandemic Phase" of COVID Is Over, Then Says Pandemic Is...
US officials are still struggling to communicate about COVID-19 with the public. Take president Joe Biden's chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, who attempted to say today that the US has weathered the...
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Head of FDA Says Misinformation Is Now the Leading Cause of Death
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration, Robert Califf, says pandemic misinformation is now the country's leading cause of death. Following the Health Journalism 2022 conference in Austin, TX,...
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CDC Mocked for Bizarre Tweet About Cancer Causing Cancer
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) is getting clowned on Twitter for sending out a bizarre tweet that as of this writing has yet to be deleted. Dr. Fumiko Ladd Chino joked about the gaffe online,...
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Apple Staffers Quit Rather Than Return to Office
Forbidden Fruit A group of high-ranking Apple employees published an open letter to the company declaring their resignation in April after learning they'd need to commute to an office at least three...
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China Says It's 3D Printing a 590-Foot Hydroelectric Dam With Zero Human Labor
Here's a riddle for you. How can a country with enough resources to 3D print a new hydroelectric dam using artificial intelligence, driverless trucks and seemingly the best construction equipment money...
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Joe Biden is Worried About Monkeypox
The President of the United States says he'll be concerned about monkeypox if it starts to spread more widely than it already has. Following this week's report that the disease was confirmed in the US...
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Next Pandemic Could Be Caused by Horrid Fungi, Scientists Warn
Disease experts are worrying that the next pandemic could be caused by fungi rather than a virus, National Geographic reports — a terrifying possibility, scientists say, given how little we know about...
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The CDC's New COVID Guidelines Are Pretty Stupid Even by American Standards
Tired of COVID-19 precautions? So is the CDC, apparently. As outlined in a Thursday press release, the ostensibly disease-preventing body is promoting no longer requiring that folks exposed to the...
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Biden Really Screwed Up When He Said the "Pandemic Is Over"
You'd think that in the two-plus years since March 2020, the US government might have learned a thing or two about the importance — and precarity — of public health messaging. Unfortunately, though,...
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Pfizer's Jacking Up the COVID Vaccine Cost to 10,000 Percent Its Production Cost
We're not surprised, just really disappointed. Reuters reports that next year, pharma giant Pfizer plans to nearly quadruple the per-dose price of their COVID-19 vaccine, jacking costs from $20 to $30...
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Pandemic Wasn't So Bad for Mental Health, Says Broken-Brained Study
Have you heard? According to some very smart people who did a study (of other studies), the COVID-19 pandemic didn't actually warp everyone's mental health as much as we thought it did! If you're...
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The Next Pandemic Could Be "Even Deadlier," WHO Warns
The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the next pandemic — bearing in mind, of course, that we're not even through COVID-19 yet — could be even worse. During a meeting of the World...
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In Leaked Tirade, CEO of Zoom Complains You Can’t Get Anything Done on Zoom
Slam Zoom Eyebrows were raised when Zoom, the video conferencing service that became ubiquitous during the pandemic, announced that some employees would be coming back to the office, reversing an...
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17,000 People Died From Taking Hydroxychloroquine, Scientists Estimate
In news that's sure to kickstart a wave of recriminations, researchers have estimated that almost 17,000 people died in six countries during the first COVID-19 wave due to the use of hydroxychloroquine...
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