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On Friday, British health officials said that the spread of monkeypox across the country may have reached its peak and that the rate of growth has slowed.
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On Saturday, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency because monkeypox is spreading around the world without being stopped.
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A top World Health Organization official used her platform to promote a notoriously pro-authoritarian conspiracy site, and after it supported Chinese propaganda claims about Taiwan. Her move has drawn criticism from the highest levels of the U.S. government. Gabby Sterne, WHO’s communications director, spread on Twitter Tuesday morning an article claiming Taiwan had never warned …
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Spread of the coronavirus by asymptomatic patients is “very rare,” the World Health Organization said Monday, calling into question research that suggested asymptomatic cases could be spreading the disease on a large scale. “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said …
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US stocks took a deep sigh of relief Friday after President Trump’s tough talk toward China did not include the announcement of any new tariffs. The Dow Jones industrial average slid as much as 368.97 points, or 1.4 percent, to 25,031.67 ahead of Trump’s 2 p.m. news conference. That index closed down only 17.53 points, …
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President Trump on Tuesday announced he would halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization pending a review of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the WHO while a review is conducted to assess the WHO’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of …