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WHO Seeks to Revive Stalled Inquiry into COVID-19 Origins

Mon, 2021-09-27 11:54 — mike kraft

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The World Health Organization is reviving its stalled investigation into the origins of COVID-19 with a new team of about 20 scientists. The team—including specialists in laboratory safety and biosecurity and geneticists and animal-disease experts versed in how viruses spill over from nature—is being assembled with a mandate to find new evidence in China and elsewhere. The possibilities that the new team is charged with examining include whether the COVID-19 virus could have emerged from a lab, according to WHO officials.

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A Lab Company Charges $380 for a Covid Test. Is That What Congress Had in Mind?

Mon, 2021-09-27 11:42 — mike kraft

At the drugstore, a rapid Covid test usually costs less than $20.

Across the country, over a dozen testing sites owned by the start-up company GS Labs regularly bill $380.

There’s a reason they can. When Congress tried to ensure that Americans wouldn’t have to pay for coronavirus testing, it required insurers to pay certain laboratories whatever “cash price” they listed online for the tests, with no limit on what that might be.

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Pfizer begins study of oral drug for prevention of COVID-19

Mon, 2021-09-27 11:03 — mike kraft

Pfizer begins study of oral drug for prevention of COVID-19 Pfizer Inc said on Monday it has started a large study testing its investigational oral antiviral drug for the prevention of COVID-19 infection among those who have been exposed to the virus. Reuters Reuters

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Pfizer CEO predicts life will come back to normal within a year even with new coronavirus variants

Mon, 2021-09-27 10:32 — mike kraft

Pfizer CEO predicts 'we will able to come back to normal life' within a year even with new variants of the coronavirus The US Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Pfizer boosters for people 65 years and older and others at high risk of severe COVID-19, Connor Perrett YahooNews

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Officials confident US has enough COVID-19 vaccines for boosters, kids’ shots

Mon, 2021-09-27 10:18 — mike kraft

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they’re confident there will be enough for both qualified older Americans seeking booster shots and the young children for whom initial vaccines are expected to be approved in the not-too-distant future. ...

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