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LA County, the most populous in the country, is seeing “exponential growth” of COVID cases, according to county health officials. Almost 100% of cases are from unvaccinated people, who are more at risk to the highly-transferrable Delta variant. Johnson & Johnson has reported that its vaccine is effective against the Delta variant. That variant in …

As teachers, parents, and children begin looking ahead to the next school year, the CDC has advised that all unvaccinated persons wear masks indoors. According to Anthony Fauci, a touch over 99% of COVID deaths involve people who have not been vaccinated. Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt …

Fourteen new Chinese companies have been added to the U.S. blacklist over human rights violation in Xinjiang. Just after the January elections, in his first call with Chinese official Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pressed China over its treatment of the Uighur and Tibetans. The U.S. State Department has also labeled …

Russia has seen its highest daily rise in COVID cases since January. Last week, Russia set a new record for COVID deaths––the fifth in as many days––as the Delta variant spread. In a move with terrifying echoes of March 2020, Hong Kong has banned all flights from the United Kingdom in order to stop the …

The Labor Party in the United Kingdom has called for the government and royalty to boycott the Beijing Olympics, specifically citing the ongoing Uighur genocide. There have been calls for boycotting the Beijing Olympics are increasing tensions with China since spring. For example, thirteen MPs from Canada have signed a letter to the International Olympic …

Indonesians are desperately search for oxygen amid a COVID surge, a reminder that the pandemic is far from over. Russia set a new record for COVID deaths––the fifth in as many days––as the Delta variant spreads. In a move with terrifying echoes of March 2020, Hong Kong has banned all flights from the United Kingdom …

More than a billion animals living on the British Colombia seashore may have died during the last heatwave. Animals like mussels, clams, sea stars, and others died en masse along the shore, leading to a horrible smell and a ravaged ecosystem. Canadians on the west side of the country had to ditch the usual light …

Four Tibetan monks have been jailed for no reason, according to the Human Rights Watch. Just after the January elections, in his first call with Chinese official Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has pressed China over its treatment of the Uighur and Tibetans. The U.S. State Department has also labeled China’s treatment …

There have been three confirmed cases of avascular necrosis or death of bone tissues in India, and experts fear that more cases are on the way. This follows, (as of two weeks ago) an estimated 31,000 cases of the rare but deadly condition called “black fungus” (mucormycosis) in India. Almost exactly a month ago, more …

According to Anthony Fauci, a touch over 99% of COVID deaths involve people who have not been vaccinated. Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has called unvaccinated people are “variant factories,” increasing the likelihood that new variants, like the highly-infectious Delta variant, will emerge. Johnson …

Russia set a new record for COVID deaths––the fifth in as many days––as the Delta variant spreads. In a move with terrifying echoes of March 2020, Hong Kong has banned all flights from the United Kingdom in order to stop the spread of the Delta COVID variant. The variant is already spreading rapidly around the …

According to Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, unvaccinated people are “variant factories,” increasing the likelihood that new variants, like the highly-infectious Delta variant, will emerge. Johnson & Johnson has reported that its vaccine is effective against the Delta variant. That variant in particular is …