Molnupiravir, the oral pill for COVID-19, may actually be driving the emergence of new, potentially harmful, variants of the virus, according to a Wellcome Trust-funded study at the pre-print stage.
As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, new questions have emerged about the origin of the virus and whether one of its more pathogenic variants, Delta, may have originated from Pfizer Inc.'s India operations.
A Pfizer executive claims in a video that the company had been exploring ways to "mutate" the coronavirus via "directed evolution" by experimenting on monkeys and the Delta variant, which is more contagious, was discovered in India a month after Pfizer announced its monkey research.
Democrats in the Washington Legislature have appointed one of their members who lied about his military history—other details of his background in order to win an election— to the chamber's veterans' committee.
At the present time, China is the greatest threat to world stability, Russia is the world’s premier aggressor-nation, and Islamist groups are the primary exporters of terror and (religious) totalitarianism.