Variants

Kirillov explained that, "[Branches] around the world, allow the U.S. military to gain access to epidemically significant variants of pathogens that are potential agents of biological weapons."

Zhou allegedly filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine as early as February 2020, only a month after China publicly acknowledged the virus outbreak.

As the authors write, the advancement conjures a "complex ethical conundrum" because the genomic information captured "comes from individuals mostly unaware of the technology use and oblivious to the fact that their genetic information has been inadvertently obtained."

Raising questions about the vaccine's advertised ability to protect against the disease.

Research shows that "the duration of protection after breakthrough infection was longer than after the third/booster vaccination."

However, a recent U.K. community-based population study found that those who have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, demonstrate a lower rate of new Omicron BA.4/BA.5 infections compared to those who were vaccinated.

Musk's new Twitter CEO is Chair at the World Economic Forum, which pushes online content moderation.

The study discovered that "the overall risk of retinal vascular occlusion in the vaccinated cohort was 2.19 times higher than that in the unvaccinated cohort at 2 years (95% Cl 2.00–2.39)."

This is the first time the United States has paid those adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccine.

"[T]here is no evidence which animals (were) where the virus comes (from)," said the former head of China's CDC.