“If you saw him throw out the first pitch in Washington, right? He is a better pitcher than he is at what he does,” the former president told Fox News’ ‘The Ingraham Angle,’ referring to Fauci’s much-maligned opening pitch last summer, which completely missed home plate. Despite Fauci widely seen …
Read More »CNN airs Trump CDC chief’s ‘opinion’ that Covid started as WUHAN LAB LEAK, argues he ‘sees & knows things the rest of us don’t’
The interview with Robert Redfield, who served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under Donald Trump, was aired by CNN as part of a preview of an upcoming feature program called “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out.” In a one-on-one segment with CNN’s Sanjay …
Read More »Democracy has seen 500,000 US Covid deaths: China hits back as Biden says Xi Jinping ‘doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body’
Speaking on Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying addressed comments made by the US president in his first solo press conference on Thursday, in which Biden claimed Chinese leader Xi Jinping “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” Hua said that the issues of democracy and centralization were not …
Read More »Calls for Merkel to face vote of no confidence after embarrassing U-turn on Covid-19 Easter lockdown
Members of the Bundestag could soon be asked to vote on whether the chancellor has their support after a number of eager politicians jumped to capitalize on a rare case of an admitted misjudgment by the country’s long-standing leader. On Wednesday, the leader of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), Christian …
Read More »Brussels introduces new export authorization mechanism to slow Covid-19 vaccine shipments leaving EU, despite British protests
Speaking on Wednesday, European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said the EU and its member states would now evaluate, on a case-by-case basis, whether vaccine shipments will be allowed to leave the 27-nation bloc, but under new criteria. The criteria, which had previously been touted by EC President Ursula von …
Read More »Hillary Clinton urges Biden to give Covid-19 vaccines to poor nations, complains that Russia and China lead in ‘VACCINE DIPLOMACY’
“This is the kind of leadership that the United States has historically been known for, which frankly, we should be lifting up and doing more of,” Clinton said on Monday in an interview with Foreign Affairs magazine. “And what I’m intrigued by, and a little saddened by, is the way …
Read More »Russian President Vladimir Putin receives Covid-19 vaccine as nationwide immunization campaign underway
The president, who has been noticeably cautious when it comes to Covid-19, received the jab in Moscow on Tuesday. Putin is “feeling well,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the president has a full working day scheduled for Wednesday. Kremlin has earlier refused to reveal which formula Putin was injected with, …
Read More »‘Outdated information’ may have skewed efficacy data from AstraZeneca Covid vaccine trial, US govt health institute claims
On Monday, the pharmaceutical giant released promising interim results from its US study, which showed its drug to have 79% efficacy in stopping symptomatic Covid-19 and to be 100% effective at preventing severe cases and hospitalization. The firm also said that the results showed that the drug does not cause …
Read More »Germany to impose its harshest Covid-19 lockdown yet for Easter holiday as Merkel asks churches to hold online services only
Noting the country is in a “race” to combat the pandemic, Merkel outlined the nationwide shutdown during a news conference early on Tuesday, saying that not only will existing restrictions be extended to April 18, but that most businesses will be made to close their doors for at least five …
Read More »World’s 1st ORAL Covid-19 vaccine could soon begin human trials
The trailblazing drug, called Oravax, is being developed by Israeli-American Oramed Pharmaceuticals and India-based Premas Biotech. The two companies have teamed up to create Oravax Medical Inc., which hopes to combine Oramed’s oral delivery technology with Premas’ vaccine expertise to create a new method of inoculation against Covid-19. A pilot …
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