A group of scientists from Africa and elsewhere are urging the scientific community and world health leaders to drop the stigmatizing language used to differentiate monkeypox viruses, and are even advocating renaming the virus itself.
A Virginia firm that got a no-bid $750 million contract to manage the quick distribution of COVID relief loans — the biggest such contract awarded — netted $340 million in "windfall profits" for itself, says a report released Tuesday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
GENEVA (AP) — Over two years after the coronavirus was first detected in China, and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, WHO is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is required into whether a lab accident may be to blame.