Virologist saying China released coronavirus worked with Steve Bannon

Virologist saying China released coronavirus worked with Steve Bannon: A group of Chinese virologists released a strange new paper on Monday that claims the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese lab.
One of the virologists, Li-Meng Yan, told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson it was a "man-made virus" that the Chinese government released "intentionally."

Yan and her coauthors work for groups cofounded by the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon. He directed the groups before his arrest in August.

Some members of the Trump administration have pushed a fringe theory that the virus accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, but there's no evidence of this.

Twitter Suspends Account of Chinese Virologist Who Claimed Coronavirus Was Made in a Lab: The social media profile of Dr. Li-Meng Yan, with just under 60,000 followers, went dark this week as the scientist claimed to have scientific evidence the Chinese government was involved in manufacturing the highly-infectious novel coronavirus.

A pre-print report pushed online this week by Dr. Yan and three colleagues contained a series of unsubstantiated claims about the origins of the global pandemic.

 

The Most Complicated Vaccine Campaign Ever

COVID-19: The Most Complicated Vaccine Campaign Ever - The Atlantic: The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.

Forecasting the COVID-19 recession and recovery

Forecasting the COVID-19 recession and recovery: Forecasting the recession and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis is of substantial policy interest. The pandemic shock shares both similarities and differences with previous crises, such as the financial crisis of 2007-2009. This column evaluates the ability of different forecasting and nowcasting approaches to predict the COVID-19 economic shock and forecast the potential recovery path. It shows that adjusting for forecasting errors made during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 better aligns the COVID forecasts with observed data. The results suggest a slow recovery to pre-COVID-19 levels, lasting several years.

How does COVID-19 compare to other major causes of death?

How does COVID-19 compare to other major causes of death? The number of deaths from COVID-19 has passed one million in almost nine months.

The WHO has warned that could double if countries don’t take greater action to tackle the pandemic.
56 million people died in 2017, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death globally.

 

We may never know COVID-19’s real death rate - Here’s why:

• Experts estimate that coronavirus kills 0.5% to 1% of people infected, but this figure varies greatly with age.
• Increased testing and better treatments since the start of the pandemic, have seen the fatality fall, but there is still much unknown.

What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 29 September

COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 29 September: Top stories: Deaths pass 1 million; antigen tests to be made available globally; positive tests rise in New York state.

Covid-19 : bienvenue dans un monde complètement administré

Covid-19 : bienvenue dans un monde complètement administré: La crise de la Covid-19 a ceci de merveilleux, qu’outre d’avoir permis aux dirigeants du monde entier d’assigner à résidence pendant de nombreuses semaines la totalité de leurs citoyens et de les avoir empêché de travailler librement, et cela sans opposition, elle  devient maintenant un fabuleux prétexte à faire entrer de manière coordonnée, et cette fois le monde entier, dans un monde parfaitement administré.

Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app

Police told not to download NHS Covid-19 app - BBC News: The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) has confirmed officers are being told not to install the NHS Covid-19 app on their work smartphones.

The app detects when users have been in proximity to someone with the virus.

Some officers have also been told they may not need to obey self-isolate alerts generated by the app when downloaded to their personal phones.

Lancashire Constabulary has told staff to call the force's own Covid-19 helpline instead.

The BBC contacted the North-West of England force after a source claimed the advice had been given because of "security reasons".

The source also said officers had been told not to carry their personal phones while on duty if they had activated the app.