September 27, 2024 Anne-Gaëlle Moulun The origin of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked much debate, and various hypotheses have been put forward. “My colleagues and I have examined the issue with an open mind, taking into account all possible hypotheses. The laboratory origin hypothesis was legitimate and deserved to be investigated,” Florence Débarre, a research...
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WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’
Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses delegates during the first day of the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Credit: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of...
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COVID pandemic second anniversary: Three things we got wrong, and three things to watch out for
by Adrian Esterman, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Exactly two years ago, on March 11 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This was two months after there were reports of a mystery virus infecting people in Wuhan, the most populous city in central China. Early reports said the virus didn’t appear to...