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Washington (AFP) - An anti-vaccine group founded by US presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr raised millions of dollars during the coronavirus pandemic, tax records show, boosting its coffers as it ramped up what experts call dangerous health misinformation. Children's Health Defense (CHD), repeatedly called out for promoting vaccine falsehoods, collected about $46 million between 2020 and 2022, roughly 10 times its revenue in the three years preceding the pandemic. CHD and four other non-profit organizations collectively raked in more than $100 million during that period, public tax rec...
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Around 40 per cent of Europeans said they held a positive view of the EU’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an exclusive Euronews-Ipsos poll. But there were large differences across EU countries, ranging from 74 per cent in Portugal holding a positive view of the bloc’s impact on fighting the pandemic to a mere 24 per cent holding that view in the Czech Republic. Respondents with the most negative views of the EU’s role during the pandemic were in Romania, Slovakia, and Austria. Overall, around 32 per cent of Europeans polled said they had neither a positive nor negative view wh...
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Don’t say ‘mocktail’ in front of Dan Shell. Despite being a UK brand ambassador for Lyre’s, one of the biggest mocktail (oops) companies in the world, the award-winning bartender still winces at the word: "It's juicy, kiddy, nasty." Instead, Shell prefers to call them "non-alcoholics". “The whole thing with non-alcoholic cocktails is, they're an adult, grown up, non-alcoholic beverage, and that's something that didn't exist before,” he tells Euronews Culture. Indeed, the new wave of alcohol-free cocktails have had a glow-up, exuding flair, flavour and clear-headed-class. From sweet n’ smoky ma...
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A discoloured Snoopy plush. A little rubber piggy. A doodle by a stranger. Meaningless to most, these objects are the last remains of long languished love stories that now sit on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia. Whether bought for an anniversary, part of an in-joke or just random accomplices to life’s most intimate moments; ‘things’ are often all we have left to hold onto when a relationship ends; host to fragments of memories like Harry Potter Horcruxes. The dilemma, then, is what do you do with such objects? Too painful to keep, too meaningful to chuck. In 20...
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The bleak prediction was put forward by the OECD in its February 2024 interim economic outlook: "Strengthening the Foundations for Growth." The interim report looks at the global economic outlook and inflation forecasts for 2024, as well as ongoing geopolitical risks such as trade disruptions from the Red Sea conflict. Lockdown impact on children's education could slow growthThere was an unprecedented drop in mathematics and reading test scores amongst 15-year olds between 2018 and 2022, the years spanning the pandemic, the report revealed, citing the OECD's 2023 global Performance for Interna...
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Washington (AFP) - The head of the main US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control, announced on Friday that she will step down from her post at the end of June. Rochelle Walensky, who was a key figure in the Biden administration's response to Covid-19, did not give a direct reason for her departure, but suggested that the easing of the coronavirus pandemic had brought her tenure at the CDC to a natural endpoint. "The end of the Covid-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director," the 54-year-old sa...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House on Monday announced a May 11 end to Covid-19 vaccine requirements for travelers to the United States and for government employees across the world's biggest economy. "Today, we are announcing that the administration will end the Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers at the end of the day on May 11, the same day that the Covid-19 public health emergency ends," a statement said. More than a million people died from Covid-19 in the United States. However, the White House noted that the pandemic ...
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New York (AFP) - Moderna's chief executive on Wednesday defended the US company's plan to quadruple the price of its lifesaving Covid vaccine to as much as $130 per dose as soon as government stockpiles run out. Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders lashed out at the price hike, denouncing the "unprecedented level of corporate greed" in the pharmaceutical industry. "And that is certainly true with Moderna," Sanders said. Moderna has so far charged between about $15 and $26 for doses of its vaccine, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The US government subsidized $1.7 billion of Moderna's re...
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Geneva (AFP) - All countries remain "dangerously unprepared" for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned on Monday, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three "brutal" years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are "severely lacking", the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said. The world's largest humanitarian network said building trust, equity and local action networks were vital to get ready for the next crisis. "All countries remain dangerously unprepared for future ...
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By The Conversation Shengjie Lai , University of Southampton and Andrew J Tatem , University of Southampton China stuck rigidly to a zero-COVID policy until December 2022. This included travel restrictions, mass testing and mandatory quarantines. The rapid lifting of this strategy led to a surge of COVID infections across the country. There have been concerns that the Chinese lunar new year travel in January may cause this wave of COVID to spread much further and faster, with significant numbers of hospital admissions and deaths. Lunar new year involves hundreds of millions of people travellin...
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