Tag: #COVID-19

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Chen Qingqing and Liu Caiyu August 15, 2021

US No. 1 failure in anti-epidemic fight: Think Tanks

Does the US rank No. 1 in COVID-19 resilience? A report jointly issued by three Chinese think tanks on Monday unveiled the truth of America's fight against the coronavirus, which indicates that the US deserves to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, apart from being the No....More

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Left Review Online August 14, 2021

COVID origins tracing must stop being politicized and return to reason and science: Jeffrey Sachs

Editor's Note: The only legitimate goal of the novel coronavirus origins tracing should be "to understand SARS-CoV-2 and work cooperatively together to end the pandemic and to prevent future pandemics," said Jeffrey Sachs, a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York and head of the Lancet COVID-19...More

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

GT staff reporters August 11, 2021

Some 2019 EVALI patients in the US may have been infected with COVID-19: Sources

It's possible that some of the patients of the mysterious vaping-related lung disease that swept through all of the 50 US states in 2019 were actually COVID-19 patients, according to a group of Chinese scientists and radiologists after reviewing some 250 chest CT scans from published papers. These...More

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques August 08, 2021

There should be an international investigation into why the West failed so disastrously: Martin Jacques

COVID-19 arrived three years after the anti-China crusade began. From the outset the virus was infused with Cold War politics. Imagine if the first case of COVID-19 had occurred at the end of 2012 rather than the end of 2019. Many things would have been the same, but...More

Chinese vaccines can protect people against the Delta variant, serious illness: top epidemiologist

Left Review Online August 07, 2021

Chinese vaccines can protect people against the Delta variant, serious illness: top epidemiologist

China's top epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan said that China needs to vaccinate about 83 percent of its population to achieve herd immunity. He also revealed that all the 13 severe cases infected with the Delta variant in Guangzhou COVID-19 outbreak in May did not get inoculated. Zhong made the...More

Third shot of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine offers big increase in antibody levels: Study

Left Review Online August 06, 2021

Third shot of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine offers big increase in antibody levels: Study

A third shot of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine given six months or more after the second shot would result in a remarkable increase in antibody levels, a new study has found, and a two-dose schedule appears to generate good immune memory. The results of the study were published on...More

How mainstream US media outlets make a U-turn on virus ‘lab leak’ theory

Xu Liang August 03, 2021

How mainstream US media outlets make a U-turn on virus ‘lab leak’ theory

The tracing of COVID-19 origins is supposed to be a task for scientists. Yet Western media have never stopped hyping speculations and smears against China. Granted, some of them, including mainstream US media outlets, remained cautious with a disapproving view on the "lab leak" theory in 2020. Yet...More

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Left Review Online July 20, 2021

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Over 2 million Chinese netizens have signed an open letter as of Tuesday noon, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) investigate the US' Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins, and the number is still increasing rapidly. The letter was issued as the WHO on Friday proposed a second...More

Sinopharm, Sinovac to supply 550m vaccines to COVAX

Leng Shumei July 18, 2021

Sinopharm, Sinovac to supply 550m vaccines to COVAX

Chinese COVID-19 vaccine producers Sinopharm and Sinovac reached advance purchase agreements with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to provide as many as 550 million doses of China-made vaccines for the world through the COVAX Facility, a move that would largely help the world tackle the...More

Planting ‘consultants,’ blocking vaccine approval, threatening officials – Australia sabotages China-PNG cooperation by all means

Xing Xiaojing and Liu Xin July 11, 2021

Planting ‘consultants,’ blocking vaccine approval, threatening officials – Australia sabotages China-PNG cooperation by all means

By planting Australian consultants in Papua New Guinea to manipulate local epidemic prevention policies targeting China, obstructing the authorizing of Chinese vaccines' emergency use, threatening senior officials from welcoming Chinese vaccines, Australia has been found sabotaging and disturbing Pacific Island nations' cooperation with China on vaccines and anti-virus...More

Western scientists face government probe, death threats for opposing COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Source

Left Review Online July 07, 2021

Western scientists face government probe, death threats for opposing COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Source

Prominent US and Australian scientists focused on the COVID-19 origins tracing are now facing tremendous political pressure, and some have been sidelined for not yielding to politicians-driven conspiracy theory on the matter and received anonymous threatening letters with bullets, the Global Times learned from people familiar with the...More

Suspect No. 1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing

Xia Wenxin July 05, 2021

Suspect No. 1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing

The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory, has once again caused a clamor since the beginning of this year, months after the argument was thrown into the trash can of conspiracy theories by an overwhelming number of scientists. Observers found that things only get more...More

China urges the US to withdraw political ‘black hands’ on scientists on COVID-19 origins

Left Review Online July 04, 2021

China urges the US to withdraw political ‘black hands’ on scientists on COVID-19 origins

Some people in the US are now extending their "black hands" to the international science community in an attempt to force scientists to bow to US hegemony, which is a violation and infringement of the scientific spirit, a destruction of global cooperation in tracing the COVID-19 origins, and...More

Sinovac vaccine ‘well tolerated, safe and induced humoral responses’ in minors aged 3-17, to boost public confidence on herd immunity

Liu Caiyu and Hu Yuwei July 03, 2021

Sinovac vaccine ‘well tolerated, safe and induced humoral responses’ in minors aged 3-17, to boost public confidence on herd immunity

The world's first trial results on minors aged 3-17 showed China's inactivated COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinovac had good safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity in youths aged 3-17 years, the Global Times learnt from Sinovac on Tuesday. Observers believe the results will inspire the ongoing trial of other COVID-19...More

WSJ-cited lab report on COVID-19 origins provides no new info, just ‘pathetic story to push political agenda’

Chen Qingqing June 14, 2021

WSJ-cited lab report on COVID-19 origins provides no new info, just ‘pathetic story to push political agenda’

With US media and politicians again citing so-called "reports and evidence" hyping "the lab leak theory" on the question of COVID-19 origins, echoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's latest claim on the conspiracy, a source close to the WHO origins-tracing team told the Global Times on Tuesday...More