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Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, possibly more dangerous than other strains, CDC report says

Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, possibly more dangerous than other strains, CDC report says

Delta variant as contagious as chickenpox, possibly more dangerous than other strains, CDC report says.
New evidence showing the delta variant is as contagious as chickenpox, and possibly more dangerous than other strains, has prompted United States health officials to consider changing advice on how the nation fights the coronavirus, internal documents show.
Unlike with other variants, vaccinated people infected with Delta can transmit the virus, it said.

Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Now, The Lancet is handing even more influence to the group that has conflicts of interest on the important public health question of the pandemic origins. On Nov. 23, The Lancet named a new 12-member panel to the The Lancet COVID 19 Commission. The chairman of the new task force to investigate the “Origins, Early Spread of the Pandemic, and One Health Solutions to Future Pandemic Threats” is none other than the EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak.

EcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “Natural Origin” of SARS-CoV-2

EcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “Natural Origin” of SARS-CoV-2

Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin” was organized by employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit group that has received millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer funding to genetically manipulate coronaviruses with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.