"The governing Chinese Communist Party has been highly sensitive to the matter, especially as it courts outside investment after months of zero-Covid lockdowns prompted nationwide protests, Yoon reported."

<<"We're now as sure as we can be, based on the fragmentary evidence we do have, that this was a spillover event that happened in the market." Crowded, live animal markets, many scientists agree, provide an ideal transmission hotspot for _...Read More_

"Scientists who weren't involved in the research papers are calling the new data "very convincing" and a "blow" to the lab-leak theory."

"Xi’an, a city of 13 million people, has been on lockdown since Dec. 22, the longest in the country since the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan."

>"Both pandemic-origin arguments depend on coincidence."

>"A new review of early Covid-19 cases in the journal Science will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over how the pandemic began."

Congratulations to her. But why must this news outlet describe her as a person of color? ... like that is the only focus ......My family members are Asian, and much , much more fair skinned than any of my European relatives and friends... _...Read More_

Michelle Wu is Boston's first woman and first person of color elected mayor

Her election represents a seismic shift to the political landscape of the city.

>"The city’s 91-year succession of Irish American and Italian American mayors has ended, with Michelle Wu earning one of two spots in the general election in _...Read More_

>"More than 900 pages of materials related to US.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The _...Read More_

Profile of leading scientist investigating the lab origin hypothesis

The Masked Ball of Cowardice “Every step of the way, the international synchronization of lockdown mandates has given a veneer to policies that are inherently unscientific, unprecedented, ineffective, totalitarian, brutal, and dumb.”

"Further delays could make it impossible to recover crucial evidence about the beginning of the pandemic, experts studying the origins of the coronavirus for the World Health Organization."