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Biden Rolling Out Plan for $4 Billion Global Vaccine Effort
White House officials say Joe Biden will use his first big presidential moment on the global stage at Friday’s Group of Seven meeting to announce that the U.S. will soon begin releasing $4 billion for an international effort to bolster the purchase and distribution of coronavirus vaccine for poor nations.
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EXPLAINER: What the WHO Coronavirus Experts Learned in Wuhan
A World Health Organization team is leaving China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide
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WHO Team: Coronavirus Unlikely to Have Leaked From China Lab
A team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 says the coronavirus most likely appeared in humans after jumping from an animal
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WHO Says Covid ‘Most Likely' Originated in Animals and Spread to Humans, Dismisses Lab Leak Theory
Scientists have been working in the Chinese city of Wuhan for the past four weeks as part of their search for clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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WHO Investigators Visit Research Center in Wuhan
Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.
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WHO Team in Wuhan Visits Disease Control Centers
A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province where the outbreak emerged
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WHO Team in Wuhan Departs Quarantine for COVID Origins Study
A World Health Organization team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic
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Biden's US Revives Support for WHO, Reversing Trump Retreat
President Joe Biden’s top adviser on the pandemic says the United States will again fund the World Health Organization and join its consortium aimed at sharing coronavirus vaccines fairly around the globe
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Bill Gates Is the Top Target for Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories
Billionaire Bill Gates has been outspoken about steps global leaders need to take to combat the spread of coronavirus. Now, an analysis of TV and social media by The New York Times and Zignal Labs shows that Gates is the leading target of conspiracy theorists who are making false claims linking the billionaire to the deadly pandemic.
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Japan Has Found a New Covid Variant. Here's How It Compares to Virus Strains in the UK, South Africa
The identification of a new Covid variant comes as countries scramble to contain two other contagious strains that have emerged in the U.K. and South Africa.
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China: WHO Experts Arriving Thursday for Virus Origins Probe
China says a group of experts from the World Health Organization is due to arrive Thursday for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic
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WHO to Sift Chinese Samples, Data in Hunt for Virus Origins
A scientist taking part in the World Health Organization’s mission track down the origins of the coronavirus says they plan to sift through samples and medical data from China to help determine where the bug came from
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Santa is Immune From Coronavirus, Will Deliver Presents, WHO Says
The World Health Organization says Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19 and will deliver presents on Christmas, but stressed that the children of the world physically distance themselves from others and listen to their parents.
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WHO Recommends Against Making Vaccine Mandatory
“I don’t think we envision any countries creating a mandate for vaccination,” Kate O’Brien, director of the World Health Organization’s immunization department, said Monday.
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World Health Organization Has Mixed News on World AIDS Day
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the World Health Organization has mixed news about the progress made in fighting the disease.
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G-20 Summit Opens as Leaders Urge United Response to Virus
The Group of 20 summit has begun with appeals by the world’s most powerful leaders to collectively chart a way forward as the coronavirus pandemic overshadows this year’s gathering, transforming it from in-person meetings to a virtual gathering of speeches and declarations
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Workplace ‘Burnout' Recognized as Occupational Phenomenon by World Health Organization
If you often feel exhausted or mentally distant at work, the World Health Organization may have a diagnosis for you: Burnout. For the first time, the WHO has officially classified workplace burnout as an occupational phenomenon in its latest revision of the International Classification of Diseases. The agency previously defined burnout as a “state of vital exhaustion,” but this is...
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‘Rule of the Jungle': Health Expert Sounds the Alarm on Fair Access to Covid Vaccines
The race to deliver a vaccine coincides with a scramble to secure future supplies, even before their safety and efficacy have been established.
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Many Thorny Global Situations Hinge on US Election Outcome
Donald Trump’s election four years ago reframed how many nations interacted with the United States.
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WHO Study Finds Remdesivir Didn't Help COVID-19 Patients
A large study led by the World Health Organization suggests that the antiviral drug remdesivir did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients