The Rushingbrook Children's Choir was partway through a rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" when Capitol police intervened, citing potential offenses or issues that could arise.
CIA Director Bill Burns secretly visited Beijing to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, indicating growing concerns within the Biden administration about the deteriorating relations with China, and marking the highest-level trip by a Biden official to China.
"The conventional SARS-CoV-2 vaccine’s ability to provide immunological protection may be significantly impacted by over-vaccination. If this happens, either newly diagnosed COVID-19 cases or people who have already contracted the virus again may have a more severe case of the illness. This concept was proposed after seeing tolerance of both the humoral and cellular immune responses to prolonged booster immunization doses."
A delegate from the GPMB suggests conducting a simulation exercise to test the new pandemic treaty and IHR amendments, following previous simulations like "Event 201" that raised questions about their connection to real-world events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.