covid 19 pandemic
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Rare Snow Leopard at a South Dakota Zoo Likely Died of Covid-19
A big cat at the Great Plains Zoo in South Dakota may have been killed by covid-19, zoo officials reported over the weekend. The cat, a female snow leopard named Baya, died last Thursday after testing positive for the virus and experiencing severe respiratory symptoms. Several other cats at the zoo have been similarly sick…
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China Reports Zero New Locally Acquired Covid-19 Cases for Fourth Day in a Row
China reported no new locally acquired cases of covid-19 on Friday, according to China’s National Health Commission, the fourth day in a row that zero cases of community transmission have been detected on the mainland. The country reported 22 new covid-19 cases from people entering the country, all currently in quarantine. China last saw a…
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Anti-Vaccine Cartoonist Ben Garrison Says He’s Got Covid-19, Won’t Go to Hospital
Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his opposition to vaccines and his extremely flattering drawings of former President Donald Trump, told Gizmodo late Sunday that he contracted covid-19 and has been sick for about two weeks. But allegedly getting covid hasn’t changed Garrison’s mind about modern medical science.
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies: Covid-19 Not a Biological Weapon, but Lab Incident Still on the Table
In a Friday afternoon news dump, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an unclassified summary of its report on the origins of covid-19, which concludes that the deadly virus was not created as a biological weapon but does not rule out the possibility that its spread was due to a research-related…