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UK ministers considered 'culling all cats' at start of Covid-19 pandemic

Former NHS Test and Trace chief Lord Bethell said the concern about pets showed how little was known about the disease at the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020

Dublin Live · Mar 2, 2023

Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID lab leak theory seriously

Citing a classified intelligence report provided to members of Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Energy Department has now concluded with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began after an unintentional laboratory leak in China.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 2, 2023

The missing evidence in the COVID origins debate

The missing evidence in the COVID origins debate

Axios · Mar 2, 2023

The UK has quietly done an incredible job of fighting mpox – but it’s no thanks to ministers

It took the LGBTQ+ community, educated by the trauma of HIV and Aids, to fill a vacuum left by government failure, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2023

Michelle Mone flies off to plush £7m Algarve villa bought after PPE police raid

Baroness Mone and hubby Doug Barrowman snapped up the £7million Algarve ­property through an offshore firm last July.

Edinburgh Live · Mar 2, 2023

GMB's Susanna Reid horrified as government 'considered asking people to kill their pet cats'

Susanna Reid was left stunned on Good Morning Britain today as she discussed claims that the government had considered asking people to kill their cats to prevent the spread of coronavirus at the start of the pandemic

Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023

Who is Isabel Oakeshott? The controversial reporter Matt Hancock trusted with 100,000 Whatsapp messages

Political journalist at cente of storm over claims Matt Hancock rejected scientific advice to Covid test people going into care homes during the pandemic

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023

An at-home COVID-19 and flu test gets FDA emergency use authorization

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test that can detect and discern between COVID-19 infection and two strains of the flu, Influenza A and B, continuing the shift from clinical to home-diagnostic care that blossomed during the height of the pandemic.

Tribune News Service · Mar 2, 2023

Robin Abcarian: Mask mandates? COVID origins? Why are we still having these debates?

On Monday, the White House announced there is no consensus in the Biden administration about whether COVID-19 sprang from a leak in a virus laboratory in China or was the result of a leap from another species to humans.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 2, 2023

Matt Hancock labelled teaching unions 'arses' with Gavin Williamson saying they 'just hate work' in leaked messages

It came amid disagreements over schools opening during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Manchester Evening News · Mar 2, 2023