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The Biden administration has decided to roll back the testing requirements as cases, hospitalizations and deaths are declining in China and the U.S. has gathered better information about the surge.
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The FBI previously concluded with moderate confidence that COVID first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That's not the consensus among intelligence and scientific communities.
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Two U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly support the lab leak theory — with low-to-moderate confidence. No evidence has been shared. Scientists have strong evidence of animal spillover at a market.
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The Department of Energy has assessed with “low confidence” that COVID began with a lab leak. While some scientists are open to the theory, others continue to believe the virus jumped from animals.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Michael Gordon of The Wall Street Journal about a classified report indicating the Energy Department believes the COVID pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in China.
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The Hong Kong government revoked He Jiankui's visa hours after he announced his research plans in the financial hub. He shocked the world in 2018 when he announced he had altered the embryos of twin girls.
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That appeal comes after the Chinese government announced nearly 60,000 virus-related deaths since early December following weeks of complaints it was failing to tell the world what was happening.
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Low fertility rates in the wake of China's former one-child policy and lockdowns related to the COVID pandemic have contributed to the country's shrinking population.
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It would make more sense to screen a plane's wastewater to look for new variants than to screen individual passenger volunteers, some researchers say. Others say any information is helpful.
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The popular Sina Weibo social media platform said it had addressed 12,854 violations including attacks on experts, scholars and medical workers and issued temporary or permanent bans on 1,120 accounts.