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Are online claims about the WHO's pandemic treaty true?

While conspiracy theories and fake news about the WHO are commonplace online, the pandemic treaty has given them a new opportunity to resurface.

Euronews

California homeless man wins $2.4 million wrongful termination lawsuit but he’s nowhere to be found

Daniel Ridge, 49, suffers from PTSD and depression and fell into homelessness during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

Nearly 900,000 fewer people traveled from Canada to the U.S. in March

More people traveled from Canada to the U.S. in March 2022 when pandemic travel restrictions were still in place

The Independent UK

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WHO member countries agree on a draft 'pandemic treaty' to try to avoid COVID-19 mistakes

The World Health Organization's member countries agreed on a draft pandemic treaty that sets guidelines for how the international community might face the next global health crisis

The Independent UK

Countries agree on pandemic treaty to tackle future global health threats

The treaty, which was first proposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, aims to improve preparation and collaboration during future health crises.

Euronews

AI in healthcare, five years after lockdown – a different system, and a better one

Discover how AI is revolutionizing pandemic response, from detection and forecasting to vaccine development.

TechRadar

WHO countries strike landmark deal on tackling future pandemics

Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis.

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How bird flu differs from seasonal flu − an infectious disease researcher explains

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called the winter of 2024-2025 a “high severity” season with the highest hospitalization rate in 15 years.

The Conversation

WHO tests the world’s pandemic response with fictional ‘mammothpox’ outbreak

The WHO simulation exercise looked at how countries reacted in the wake of another pandemic, five years on from Covid

The Independent UK

‘It felt like a big call’: the property boss who bet workers would return to the office … and won

Simon Carter of British Land says that, with high-end facilities at a premium again, gambling on construction during the pandemic has paid off

The Guardian - UK

Pandemic Treaty Talks Inch Towards Deal

Countries hoping to end more than three years of negotiations on battling future pandemics met for talks on Tuesday, after reaching a preliminary agreement last week.

International Business Times

The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

Britain’s traditional retailers were in decline for years. Then the pandemic changed how we buy food and boosted the fishing industry

The Guardian - UK

Feds Borrowed $1.3 Trillion in the First 6 Months of This Fiscal Year

That's the highest total outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now Congress wants to borrow even more.

Reason

OPINION - The sorry decline of the Tate offers a brutal lesson to London's galleries

The Tate galleries have lost 2.2 million visitors in the past five years. That’s a drop of more than a fifth since pre-pandemic times. Tate has been in discussions with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport about its financial position, with trustees acknowledging “uncertainty” over its ability to remain…

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Radio France Internationale

WHO members reach accord 'in principle' over how to tackle future pandemics

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have reached an accord "in principle" over how to tackle future pandemics after three years of discussions triggered by the global Covid pandemic.

International Business Times

Accord Reached 'In Principle' Over Tackling Future Pandemics: Negotiating Body

WHO members on Saturday reached agreement over how to tackle future pandemics after three years of discussions, the co-chair of the negotiating body told AFP. "We have an accord in principle" and the final version will have to be okayed by the various member states, Anne-Claire Amprou, who is also…

Motorsport

Seriously, who is AO Racing Porsche driver Laurin Heinrich?

The 23-year-old's championship-winning career, not just with Rexy at AO Racing in IMSA's GTD Pro category, might never have happened if not for the pandemic

International Business Times

Moment Of Reckoning For Pandemic Agreement Talks At WHO

Negotiations toward a global agreement on tackling future pandemics came down to the wire Friday, with observers voicing hope that a consensus could be found to seal a landmark deal.

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The Conversation

Measles outbreaks in US and Canada show that MMR vaccines are needed more than ever – an expert in children’s health explains

Measles is one of the most challenging diseases to control. It requires a sustained uptake of well over 90% of two doses of a measles-containing vaccine such as MMR. But since the COVID pandemic, there has been a decline in uptake of routine vaccines in many countries including the US,…

Salon

Now is the time for a COVID-19 synthesis

Collective trauma has made talk about the pandemic overwhelming. Five years on, it’s time to apply lessons learned

The Guardian - UK

Pandemic-fuelled shift to coast and country has gone into reverse

Fewer people want to escape from cities – and homes by the sea have lost some of their lustre, says Rightmove

The Independent UK

The reason why UK seaside property is taking weeks longer to sell

During the Covid-19 pandemic, a shift to flexible working and a reassessment of lifestyle priorities led to a surge in demand for rural homes

Evening Standard

Seaside homes ‘take three weeks longer to sell on average than during pandemic’

The speed at which homes in coastal areas are finding buyers has slowed by 21 days on average, compared with 2021, Rightmove said.

RideApart

CFMoto's New Side-By-Sides Look Ready For Action, Whether It's the Farm or Woods

While I adore the go-fast, send-it side-by-sides on the market—things like Can-Am's Maverick R and X3, as well as Polaris' Pro Rs—the world that birthed them isn't the one that we're living in any longer. The world's become much more expensive since the onslaught of sales occurred during the middle…

Fortune

Stocks closed mixed in most volatile session since the pandemic as Wall Street is ‘starting to find a bottom’

Heightened volatility might have paradoxically helped share prices stabilize after last week’s historic selloff.

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