Tag: Pandemic

How to Catch Pandemic Fraud? Prosecutors Try Novel Methods.

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Federal prosecutors are scrambling to recoup billions of dollars in pandemic aid from people who falsely obtained funds from government programs that were intended to keep the economy afloat during the Covid shutdowns.

In some districts, prosecutors are screening those suspected of a violent crime for potential involvement in pandemic fraud schemes. Other investigators are putting together “strike force teams” to unravel the most sophisticated enterprises or leaning on local officials to steer them toward potential fraudsters in their areas.

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Oregon County Home To Portland Loses Over $1 Billion As Thousands Leave During Pandemic

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An Oregon county home to Portland lost over $1 billion in income as the area saw a large exodus of people amid complaints about rampant homelessness and crime.

From 2020 – 2021, a net total of 14,257 tax filers and their dependents left Multnomah County, according to IRS data analyzed by The Oregonian/Oregon Live. Most of the residents who left during the year after the pandemic started tended to have higher income, according to Oregon Live.

“The real question is

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Decoding the data of the Chinese mpox outbreak

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Sounds quite bad, right? 

It turns out the reality is a tad more complicated. On the WHO website, the recent mpox data listed under China is the sum of cases reported in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. 

The lack of data separation is significant here for a few reasons. First, while case counts have indeed risen in China, we don’t know by how much and over what time frame. China reported 106 cases in June alone, and it’s safe to

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Matt Le Tissier claims his family thought he had ‘mental health issues’ because of his views on the Covid pandemic… but they now realise he ‘wasn’t mad and was talking a lot of sense’

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Matthew Le Tisser has claimed that his family and close friends thought he had ‘mental health issues’ over his controversial views during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Southampton legend was an outspoken figure throughout the pandemic, regularly making headlines with his viewpoints on social media and in interviews. 

Among his claims were that PCR tests ‘were the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind’, dying Covid patients in Italy ‘were actors’ and that the government’s interference in people’s lives during lockdown was

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‘Blight’ warns that a future pandemic could start with a fungus

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Blight
Emily Monosson
W.W. Norton & Co., $28.95

In the summer of 1904, American chestnut trees in the Bronx were in trouble. Leaves, normally slender and brilliantly green, were curling at the edges and turning yellow. Some tree limbs and trunks sported rust-colored splotches. By the next summer, almost every chestnut tree in the New York Zoological Park, now the Bronx Zoo, was dead or dying. By around 1940, almost every American chestnut across its native range, the eastern United

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Ex-head of Government’s vaccine taskforce Kate Bingham warns UK is unprepared for Covid 2.0 because of ‘dumbarse’ decisions in wake of the pandemic

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Ex-head of Government’s vaccine taskforce Kate Bingham warns UK is unprepared for Covid 2.0 because of ‘dumbarse’ decisions in wake of the pandemic

By Richard Marsden

Updated:

The former head of the government’s vaccine taskforce has accused ministers of making ‘dumbarse’ decisions after the pandemic which could hit the country’s ability to deal with a future virus outbreak.

Dame Kate Bingham said huge efforts were made to build manufacturing capability for vaccines,

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Free School Lunches Kept Millions of Kids Fed During the Pandemic. Why Stop Now? 

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July 26, 2023

In North Carolina, the ending of the Covid-era federal meals program devastated low-income communities–and legislators have been slow to face the crisis.

A student looking at the options for their school lunch.

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Hugely influential paper that killed Covid lab leak theory months into pandemic should be retracted because it is ‘misleading’, coalition of experts demand

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Dozens of scientists have today demanded the retraction of an influential paper credited with dismissing the idea that Covid emerged from a lab.

Authors of ‘Proximal Origin’, published days before Britain was thrust into its first lockdown, wrote: ‘We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.’

But a coalition of experts have now demanded it is removed, calling it ‘misleading’ and ‘damaging’.

The plea comes after secret messages between the authors — which casted doubt on

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‘Time-traveling’ pathogens trapped for thousands of years in melting permafrost could spark next pandemic and wipe out microbes crucial to our planet

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Scientists fear ‘time-traveling’ pathogens could be leaked into the world as their icy prison in permafrost is melting – and they could spark the next planet and destroy the environment.

Ancient viruses, sealed in permafrost for thousands of years, could survive and evolve to become the dominant free-living species- killing up to one-third of bacteria-like hosts.

The stark revelation was made by researchers at the European Commission Joint Research Center, who used computer simulations to find about three percent of

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