Tag: Naming the Virus

Japan Scraps COVID Border Measures as ‘Golden Week’ Holiday Rush Begins

April 29, 2023
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Japan has lifted its COVID-19 border measures, allowing all arrivals to enter the country without showing proof of vaccination or negative test results, as the country’s “golden week” holiday began. Golden week is one of Japan’s busiest travel times from April 29 to May 5, with four national holidays falling within the same week. Japan…

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Tucker Carlson’s 5 Takes on COVID

April 28, 2023
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On April 24, the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host and Fox News parted ways. Fox News stocks fell by as much as 5 percent on the same day, while Tucker Carlson’s Twitter profile gained about 700,000 followers in less than a week. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Carlson has been routinely criticized for his COVID commentaries that opposed the…

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What Do We Know About Omicron?

December 2, 2021
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It’s been just days since a new strain of COVID-19 made headlines across the planet. While the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the new Omicron variant presents a “very high risk,” other scientists, including some with WHO, have stressed that we still have much to learn about the new CCP (Chinese Communist Party)…

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WHO Explains Why It Skipped ‘Xi’ When Naming New COVID-19 Variant Omicron

November 27, 2021
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has explained why it skipped the Greek letters “nu” and “xi” in naming the new COVID-19 variant Omicron. “Two letters were skipped—Nu and Xi—because Nu is too easily confounded with ‘new’ and Xi was not used because it is a common surname and [the] WHO best practices for naming new…

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CCP Virus Pandemic Was ‘Preventable Disaster’ and ‘Terrible Wake-up Call’: WHO-Commissioned Panel

May 13, 2021
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A panel of independent experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a scathing rebuke of the global reaction to COVID-19, calling the outbreak a “preventable disaster” and a “terrible wake-up call” that exposed weak links along the entire chain of pandemic preparation and response. In a report issued Wednesday (pdf), the Independent Panel…

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