More than four years after the Covid-19 emerged, what do we know about where it came from? Did it emerge from a market, or was it cooked in a lab? My take based on the evidence at hand so far👇🏾
👉🏽A leak from secret research into bats at a #Chinese lab used to be suspected as the source of the Covid-19 virus. Evidence instead points to the virus jumping to humans from live animals in a #Wuhan food market, writes @poliohunt.
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Even as social media is flooded with photographs and videos disclosing the identity of the doctor who was recently raped and murdered at the hospital in Kolkata where she worked, @vrindagrover (Advocate, Supreme Court of India), kindly responded to NWMI's request to clarify...
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The whole quest of journalism is to verify, examine and go beyond the official narrative. Exhausting and revealing.
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Amira Hass, the only Jewish Israeli reporter to have spent 30 years living in the West Bank and Gaza, delivered the 2024 graduation speech at Columbia Journalism School and encourages journalists everywhere "to resist the normalization of evil and injustice."
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There will come a time when people, looking back at today’s extreme inequality will be shocked that we tolerated this, the same way that we get shocked that our ancestors tolerated slavery & serfdom.
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The media phases of an Indian election:
1. When are elections?
2. Party switching updates
3. Terrible opinion polls
4. Terrible opeds by retired bureaucrats who could not find time to improve anything in 40-year career
4. Massacre of South Indian place names
5. Election day Bacchan family finger photos
6. Election day multi location live vomit including further murder of any surviving South Indian place names
7. Exit poll
8. Last chance useless op-eds and opinion writing before counting day
9. Will the Lingayats align with Yadavs to overturn the Patidars in the Chambal region type nonsense
9. Counting day
10. Projectile vomit studio panel discussion
11. Petrol price increase
Where I look at the tangled origins of pandemics, and at China's ABC ( Anywhere but China) answer to the origins of Covid-19.
#Medicine | From a chimpanzee research centre in the Congo jungle to a laboratory in China, #pandemics have tangled origin stories that #science cannot always unravel in a linear way.
@poliohunt writes.
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Lecturers include -
@HKUniversity:
Joseph Wu (@jtkwu)
Thomas Abraham (@poliohunt)
@LSHTM:
Leesa Lin
Mark Jit (@markjit)
Pauline Paterson (@DrPPaterson)
Carlos Wong (@CarlosWongHKU)
Global Listening Project:
Sarah Malycha
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Good fact-checking is neutral to who-said-what. It is concerned with the truth. Which is why independent fact checkers, in the current polarised environment, are central to democracy.
A video of a speech by Amit Shah in Chhattisgarh was recently viral on social media. It is claimed that Shah said India's first IIT, IIM and AIIMS were built by BJP governments. In reality, Shah did not make any such claim. WATCH #AltNewsFactCheck
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Daily wages in #Kerala are considerably higher, almost Rs 800; accommodation clean; some contractors employed Bengali cooks and helpers for the workers. They could earn Rs 20,000-Rs 25,000 a month, it was a decent income, they could build assets at home.
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Dozens of men in their 20s and 30s from #WestBengal on the #CoromandelExpress were to take connecting trains to #Kerala, to go to work 2000-odd km from home. Most were school dropouts, construction workers, masons, painters, unskilled labourers, driven to migrate for livelihoods
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#Bengaluru don't miss this event featuring @doctorsoumya @Randeep_Dev @RajaniSurendarB & other panelists
Do spread the word! 🙏
@Namma_Bengaluru @PatientsEngage @SocialAlphaIN @TIGS_India
May 17 | Wednesday | 7:00 pm
COVID: Looking Back, Looking Forward
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Lessons for the Future
#bicevents #conversations #health #wellness #publichealth #science #pandemic #vaccines
A panel of experts to discuss Covid lessons the precautions we should be taking now to protect ourselves from future pandemics. With @doctorsoumya @Randeep_Dev @prashanthns @RajaniSurendarB and @poliohunt @bicblr
May 17 | Wednesday | 7:00 pm
COVID: Looking Back, Looking Forward
bangaloreinternationalcentre…
Lessons for the Future
#bicevents #conversations #health #wellness #publichealth #science #pandemic #vaccines
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#smallpox - the only human infectious disease to be eradicated. Thanks to a vaccine and a massive global public health effort. Can we do it for #polio next? @Rotary @BillGates @UNICEF @poliohunt
Pharaoh Ramses V comes to life. Watch this fascinating story about the eradication of a deadly disease. #SMALLPOX! Following an ambitious 12-year global vaccination campaign led by WHO, smallpox is finally eradicated in 1980. 🙌#OnThisDay
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The UK has declared a national incident over polio virus findings in London sewage.
Find out more about the disease and the importance of the vaccine in @poliohunt’s #Polio, longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019.
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Well done @JoyAgnost !! An inspired choice by Leeds. Width you all the best..
I received my contract from the @UniversityLeeds today to serve as the permanent Head of the School of History from the 1st of September 2022 (where I will also hold the post of Professor of Medical and Global Health Histories).
Can't believe @WestlandBooks @ContextIndia and the other brilliantly curated imprints that @karthikavk and @ajithags have nurtured and grown is being shut down. They published authors across the political spectrum. why @amazon? And don't tell me its because you are broke..
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What symptoms do Covid patients present when infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus? And how do they differ from Delta? Pulmonologist @lancelot_pinto explains what he's seeing in Mumbai. @dwnews