All posts tagged "Virologyandviraldiseases"

The lab in Wuhan, China suspected by some to be the source of the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer receive U.S. government funding. The Wuhan Institute of Virology had not received federal dollars since July 2020, and the Department of Health and Human Services formally suspended funding on Monday, CNN reported. HHS officials cited safety concerns and a lack of cooperation as reasons for the suspension. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols,” an HHS spokesperson s......

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, a single-shot alternative to other pharmaceutical companies’ two-dose series, is “no longer available” in the United States, health officials said. The last of the government’s J&J vaccine stock expired May 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Dispose of any remaining Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations,” the CDC says on its website. About 19 million Americans received the J&J vaccine, according to CDC statistics. That’s far less than the nearly 367 million Americans who received Pfi......

WASHINGTON — When the pandemic-era immigration rule known as Title 42 comes to an end Thursday night, a new regulation will make it harder for migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek political asylum in the United States, the Biden administration said Wednesday. Asylum seekers showing up at the border without prior authorization will have to show proof they requested asylum in any of the countries they traveled through on their way to the border, and that the request was denied. The controversial rule, which immigration advocates say mirrors a similar travel ban by the Trump adm......