This article has been updated. Latest update: 9/4/2021. The report of the ‘Joint WHO-China Study’ of the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 holds no surprises. Its main messages – that a lab origin […]
This article has been updated. Latest update 11/4/2021. The Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca-Oxford, and Moderna vaccines are being administered under emergency use authorisations in the UK. The FDA in the US has issued emergency use […]
This is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Latest update: 29/1/2021. The FDA in the US has issued emergency use authorisations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech […]
This article has been updated. Latest update: 11/12/2020. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is now being given to members of the public in the UK under emergency use authorisation. The elderly are being prioritised. […]
This is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Audio digest of this article (not updated). See article for the latest announcements by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and the developers of […]
The audio digest of ‘SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction’ is now online:
This article has been updated. Latest update 29/3/2021 Audio digest (before updates): French translation (before updates) @ France Soir. Researchers say there’s evidence within the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that suggests the virus […]
This article has been updated with the news that AstraZeneca has resumed trials of AZD1222 and with information about the pausing of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trial. A rejigged, updated version of […]
This article has been updated to include information about the two reports published by exiled scientist Li-Meng Yan et al. (Updates at the end of the article.) Six months on from the […]
This article has been updated. (Updates at the end of the article.) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed the drug hydroxychloroquine from its Solidarity trial, in which possible treatments for Covid-19 […]
The audio digest of “Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases” is now online:
Audio digest of this article: See updates (at the end of this article) about the WHO resuming its hydroxychloroquine trial and three of the authors of the controversial article about hydroxychloroquine published […]
New information has been added to this article (updates at the end), but the statistics are as of the date of publication. Up-to-date statistics can be found here. At 18/4/2020 the number […]
This article has been updated. There are reports that there will be a long-term delay in construction of the Batang Toru power plant. Conservationists say a 510-megawatt hydropower plant that is being […]
