Last week, US President Joe Biden ordered the intelligence community to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and to report their findings to.
Peter Hotez, left, added his weight to calls for a thorough and transparent probe into COVID-19 origins to say definitively whether the virus originated in a wet market, right, or leaked from a lab.
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In April 1994, the heads of
the biggest tobacco companies testified before Congress that cigarettes weren’t addictive. A month later, across
the country, a box marked “confidential” arrived for Dr. Stanton Glantz, a
longtime foe of Big Tobacco and a professor of medicine at the University of
California San Francisco. The sender signed his name “Mr. Butts,” an
allusion to a
Doonesbury character. When Glantz opened the
package, he found thousands of internal documents from British American Tobacco
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Sunday predicted that ten million kids would be vaccinated against coronavirus before fall if the Pfizer vaccine is authorized for use on younger teens. During an appearance on CBS's "Face The Nation," Gottlieb, who sits on Pfizer's board of directors, told host John Dickerson he thinks as many as 5 million children between the ages of 12 and 15 will immediately get.
British Medical Journal determined that the concept of social distancing is oversimplified and outdated. Scientists who published the paper claimed that it “overlooks the physics of respiratory emissions.” The paper also added that other factors such as ventilation, specific airflow patterns and activity type also play a role in spreading the virus once the droplets dissipate.
Furthermore, it mentioned that the infected person’s viral load, the susceptibility of other individuals near the infected person and the duration of their exposure to infected droplets should also be considered.
The meta-analysis noted that 80 percent of studies found that respiratory droplets expelled when sneezing could travel as far as 26 feet. Given these findings, the scientists posited that the Wuhan coronavirus could go beyond the minimum six-foot distance mandated by authorities.