California Approves Bill to Punish Doctors Who Spread False Information – The New York Times

AdvertisementSupported byWeighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.By Steven Lee MyersSteven Lee Myers, who covers disinformation […]

There’s some good news in the battle against long Covid – The Guardian

UK cases are falling – and scientists around the world are getting closer to being able to define and treat long CovidAs a scientist who works every day on the immunology of Covid-19 and long Covid, I’m well aware that, heading into autumn and the return to school, the UK faces yet more Covid confusion […]

Even the CDC Is Acting Like the Pandemic Is Functionally Over – The Atlantic

The CDC’s latest COVID guidelines are the closest the nation’s leaders have come to saying the coronavirus crisis is done.A quick skim of the CDC’s latest COVID guidelines might give the impression that this fall could feel a lot like the ones we had in the Before Times. Millions of Americans will be working in […]

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the COVID-19 media briefing – 17 August 2022 – World Health Organization

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. First, an update on the global monkeypox outbreak. More than 35,000 cases of monkeypox have now been reported to WHO, from 92 countries and territories, with 12 deaths. Almost 7,500 cases were reported last week, a 20% increase over the previous week, which was also 20% more than the week […]

New Mexico governor and at least 5000 New Mexicans have COVID – Source New Mexico

In the 10 days leading up to the governor’s positive test, at least 5,730 New Mexicans also tested positive, according to state Department of Health data. (Photo from March 2022 courtesy of the Office of the Governor)Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday morning tested positive for COVID-19.The New Mexico chapter of the survivors’ group Marked […]

Hong Kong leader cancels China trip in blow to reopening hopes – Al Jazeera English

John Lee had been due to visit Shenzhen and Guangzhou to discuss ways to resume travel with the Chinese mainland.Hong Kong leader John Lee has cancelled a trip to mainland China aimed at resuming cross-border travel, illustrating the quagmire facing the financial hub as it struggles to exit nearly three years of economically devastating isolation.Lee […]

Analysis | No, Biden is not telling kids to report their parents for covid disinformation – The Washington Post

Tucker Carlson: “At the same moment that Biden is accusing Republicans of fascism, his DHS [Department of Homeland Security] has published a cartoon on Facebook urging children to report their parents to federal authorities if their parents post something called covid disinformation, because that’s not Soviet or anything. What the hell is going on?”Blake Masters, […]

China places millions into Covid lockdown again as economy continues to struggle – The Guardian

Key cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dalian are under curbs again, amid protests and data showing factory slowdown China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown after fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 as the government persists in its hardline policy on containing the virus in the face of more evidence that it is suffocating […]