Category: Deaths
US Senate committee reports on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic
“Substantial evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a research-related incident associated with a laboratory in Wuhan, China.” More...
Hospitalized Covid-19 patients have 118 times greater risk of death than outpatients
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days. More...
Cases of Ebola in Kampala rise to fourteen *1 Update*
The Monitor newspaper is reporting that Ebola cases in Kampala, Uganda have risen to 14. More...
WHO: There may be more chains of Ebola transmission *1 Update*
“The Ministry of Health is investigating the most recent eight cases, as initial reports indicate they were not among known contacts.” More...
Singapore: XBB variant more prevalent in those without a previous Covid infection
Singapore’s Health Minister, Ong Ye Kung, has said that he expects the current XBB SARS-CoV-2 wave to peak in mid-November 2022. More...
Chimeric SARS-CoV-2 variant with a mortality rate of 80% *5 Updates*
Boston University scientists undertake a gain of function experiment and create a chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 virus with 80% mortality rate in mice. More...
XBB set to become the dominant variant in Singapore
XBB is set to become the dominant variant in Singapore, and is already dominant in Bangladesh. More...
Uganda reports seven more deaths from Ebola *6 Updates*
Uganda’s Ministry of Health has reported that seven more people have died of Ebola in the past few days, bring their running total to 17. More...
Denmark: A soup of 120 Covid variants sequenced in one month
You may have heard the expression “a soup of Covid variants” recently.. More...
Italy: Covid infections up 52% in one week *1 Update*
Italy has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and admissions to ICU in the past week. More...