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CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period

CIA Official Confirms Agency Flip-Flopped Over COVID-19 Origins Over Five-Day Period

Published by Jenni Sidey

Over the span of five days in 2021, the CIA abruptly changed its opinion on the origins of COVID-19 from a laboratory to neutral, a newly released document confirms.  The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at the entrance of the agency headquarters in McLean, Va., on Sept. 24, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Originally, CIA analysts concluded that COVID-19 likely came from a high-level laboratory in Wuhan, China located near where the first cases were detected in late 2019, senior CIA officer James Erdman III told lawmakers in May. Over the span of five days in 2021, however, Edman says the agency changed its stance to ‘neutral.’  Then in September of 2024 during a private briefing between intelligence officials and members of Congress, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) inquired as to how the agency came to the conclusion that lab-origin vs. natural origin were about equal, according to yesterday’s document release by outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard.  In response, an unnamed CIA employee told Wenstrup that “he made the call to stop the shift to lab because [redacted] had …

Gabbard Drops Fauci COVID-19 Receipts On Last Day: He Funded The Research, Cooked The Cover Story, Then Lied To Congress

Gabbard Drops Fauci COVID-19 Receipts On Last Day: He Funded The Research, Cooked The Cover Story, Then Lied To Congress

Published by Jenni Sidey

Newly declassified documents released Thursday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show that a U.S. national laboratory assessed the COVID-19 lab-origin hypothesis as a serious possibility as early as May 2020, as well as evidence of U.S.-funded coronavirus research that included planning for spike-protein modifications, receptor-adaptation experiments, and testing in humanized mice in collaboration with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The documents also prove that Anthony Fauci lied under oath.  Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements… pic.twitter.com/ZMdliW4zyS — DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 19, 2026 The release, issued on Gabbard’s last day on the job, includes an eight-page May 27, 2020, assessment from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Z Program. That assessment concluded that “all of the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus – specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors – were present at the Chinese …

Remembering COVID-19 | Psychology Today

Remembering COVID-19 | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a life time ago. Yet, when we look back, some of our experiences seem so vivid, it’s as if they just happened yesterday. The compounded feelings of anxiety, fear, helplessness, loneliness, and boredom from that time may occasionally come back like a dark cloud overhead. For some, the loss and devastation they experienced during the pandemic remain as the lasting pain in their life. Research has begun to examine the unique characteristics of memories from the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings reveal individual and group differences in how people remember things happening during this horrific period. More important, the memories have important implications for one’s sense of self and well-being. Characteristics of memories from the pandemic People often report that their memories for what they experienced during the pandemic are blurry, but important to them. Compared with memories from before and after the pandemic, pandemic memories are often less detailed, less about specific events and more about general routines, and more emotionally negative. The memories often focus on pandemic experiences such …

Hantavirus outbreak: What lessons have the media learned since Covid-19? – Scoop

Hantavirus outbreak: What lessons have the media learned since Covid-19? – Scoop

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again SCOOP © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 15/05/2026 – 15:40 13:03 min From the show Reading time 1 min There was a lot of concern as news reports earlier this month broke the story about an outbreak of the hantavirus on a cruise ship. The spread of disinformation has outpaced the spread of the virus. This week FRANCE 24’s media show Scoop looks at media coverage, and asks what lessons have journalists learned since the Covid-19 pandemic. Our guest is Dr Sheri Fink from The New York Times. She discusses what challenges reporters face when they cover such outbreaks. By: Source link

Scientists find concerning link between COVID-19 and lung cancer

Scientists find concerning link between COVID-19 and lung cancer

Published by Jenni Sidey

The worst damage from COVID-19 was first measured in fevers, oxygen levels and death counts. Now, years later, researchers are still tracking what the virus may leave behind in the lungs, and one new analysis points to a troubling possibility: conditions that could raise the risk of lung cancer over time. A team from Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports that people with a history of COVID-19 showed a higher rate of later lung cancer in a large clinical dataset, with the strongest signal appearing in current and former smokers. In lab and animal experiments, the same group also traced a possible biological route for that risk, centering on a protein called thymidine phosphorylase, or TYMP, that appears to help drive inflammation, fibrosis and tumor-friendly changes in lung tissue. “Our findings suggest that COVID-19 may do more than cause acute illness, it may also create biological conditions in the lung that could contribute to increased cancer risk over time,” said Wei Li, a professor of biomedical …

Covid-19 cruise passengers recall painful memories amid hantavirus outbreak

Covid-19 cruise passengers recall painful memories amid hantavirus outbreak

Published by Sam Flores

The recent coverage of a cruise ship hit with a deadly hantavirus outbreak is painfully familiar to cruisers who spent days and weeks trapped in their cabins at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Three passengers from the MV Hondius have died, two of whom had confirmed cases of the Andes strain of the hantavirus and one with a probable case. The ship is currently on a multiday journey from Cape Verde, off the coast of western Africa, to the Canary Islands. The U.S. State Department said Friday that it is arranging a flight for the 17 American passengers to be brought to a quarantine facility in Nebraska. The ship should reach the Spanish-controlled islands on Sunday, with evacuations expected to begin on Monday. Like the Hondius, the Diamond Princess was just a few weeks into its January 2020 voyage when a passenger tested positive for the coronavirus. The confirmed case turned a birthday celebration for Bill Smedley’s …

Spike in brain attacking autoantibodies linked to early COVID-19 pandemic

Spike in brain attacking autoantibodies linked to early COVID-19 pandemic

Published by José Betancourt

Researchers in Singapore detected a marked spike in autoantibodies associated with brain inflammation during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The incidence rates later declined to pre-pandemic levels, a trend the scientists attribute to widespread vaccination efforts and the arrival of less severe virus variants. The findings were published in the journal Brain and Behavior. When a person catches a virus, their immune system generates targeted proteins called antibodies to fight off the invader. After the infection clears, the immune response usually winds down. In rare instances, this system makes an error. The body produces autoantibodies that mistakenly attack the person’s own healthy tissues. When these errant antibodies target the brain, the resulting condition is known as autoimmune encephalitis. Patients with this disorder experience severe inflammation in their central nervous system. This can lead to a wide array of devastating symptoms, including memory loss, sudden alterations in personality, hallucinations, and seizures. Medical professionals have recognized for years that certain viral infections can act as a trigger for autoimmune encephalitis. A classic example is the …

Fauci Deputy Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Feared Retaliation: Emails

Fauci Deputy Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine Feared Retaliation: Emails

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A top government doctor who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 was worried he would lose his job and medical license in retaliation, according to newly obtained emails. The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on May 30, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times “There were times when I was worried about losing my job especially when we first started receiving emails about [vaccine] mandate deadlines,” Dr. Matthew Memoli, who led the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases clinical studies unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the COVID-19 pandemic, said in one missive to a NIAID spokesman. He added later that he was more concerned about losing his medical license because he was aware there were “protections for government employees.” “Washington, DC directly threatened to take away my medical license which would have threatened my job (I need a medical license) so I applied for a Virginia license and protected myself that way,” Memoli also wrote in the email, …

NHS ‘came close to collapse’ during COVID-19 pandemic, inquiry finds | UK News

NHS ‘came close to collapse’ during COVID-19 pandemic, inquiry finds | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

The NHS “came close to collapse” during the pandemic, the chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry has said. “We coped, but only just,” Baroness Heather Hallett concluded in the inquiry’s third report, released on Thursday. She said UK healthcare systems “teetered on the brink of total collapse”. Module 3, the third of the inquiry’s 10 investigations, has examined the impact of COVID on healthcare systems across the four nations. COVID inquiry latest It investigated how governments and society responded to the pandemic, the capacity of healthcare systems to adapt and the impact on patients, their loved ones and healthcare workers. The report, based on the testimony of 97 witnesses, found the UK entered the pandemic “ill-prepared”, with this fragility leading to “profound consequences” once the crisis hit. Image: Baroness Hallett has chaired the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. It says that, despite the best efforts of healthcare workers, many COVID patients did not receive the care they would otherwise receive, and non-COVID patients had their diagnoses and treatment delayed. Baroness Hallett said healthcare workers “carried the burden …