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The latest news and commentary on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

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Recent Stories

Jagger Eaton, of the United States, competes in men's street Skateboarding during the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, July 25, 2021. At the last two Olympics — one summer, one winter — that crowd did not exist due to the COVID pandemic. “I had a lot of athletes tell me that Tokyo was one of their worst Games,” said American skateboarder Jagger Eaton, who made his Olympic debut in 2021 and will return this year. “And I was like, ‘I love it here.’ I didn’t know any better.” (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Post-pandemic Paris Olympics signal a return to 'normal' for athletes and fans

By Eddie Pells and Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

Any athlete with Olympic dreams knows the feeling of lungs burning, arms and legs turning to jelly, as they near the closing moments of another grueling race or excruciatingly close match. For that last shot of adrenaline, they often tap into the energy provided by the roaring crowd.

This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. The coronavirus mutant widely known as stealth omicron is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world. But scientists still don’t know how it could affect the future of the pandemic. (NIAID/NIH via AP, File)

Answers prove elusive as scientists weigh lab leak or animal source for COVID

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

More than four years after the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged in Wuhan, China, the origin of the virus behind the global pandemic remained a topic of heated debate and frustrating uncertainty at a Senate hearing Tuesday, with Republicans and Democrats accusing the Chinese and U.S. governments of covering up critical details of the outbreak.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus pandemic at Capitol Hill, Monday, June 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

Fauci says he was always open to China lab-leak theory for coronavirus

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that he never tried to squelch lab leak theories about the origins of the coronavirus, distanced himself from a senior adviser who bragged about defying transparency laws and rebuffed Republicans who said he should have spoken out against the 6-foot social distancing rule.

An employee takes the fingerprints of a woman who died from the new coronavirus before her remains are cremated at La Recoleta crematorium in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 27, 2020. Countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global outbreak. A ninth and final round of talks involving governments, advocacy groups and others to finalize a “pandemic treaty” is scheduled to end Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Countries struggle to draft 'pandemic treaty' to avoid mistakes made during COVID

By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. Years later, countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global outbreak.

Recent Commentary Columns

Gov. Tim Walz, right, along with Commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Health Jan Malcolm, rear right, were confronted by a man who opposed their policies as they toured a facility where COVID-19 vaccines were being administered to people with appointments at the Earle Brown Heritage Center, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Walz toured a community vaccination clinic to highlight efforts to vaccinate Minnesotans who are 65 and older Thursday. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP) ** FILE **
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COVID funding fraud a prime example of why handouts fail

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Whenever government gets involved in taking tax dollars from one to give to another, the system goes bust. Government is not just a lousy manager of money. Government is totally unconcerned about its lousy money management skills because the members of government are too busy using that money to buy up votes.

A youth gets a shot of Russia&#x27;s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine during a vaccination drive at University Stadium in Mexico City, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
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COVID consequences: Childhood vaccines fall from parental favor

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Fewer Americans today see the importance of childhood vaccines, with the most dramatic declines in parental approvals of the normal vaccine schedule for newborns through 18-year-olds taking place after 2019 -- in the post-COVID, shot-pushing years. Good. It's about time for a return to the suspicions over mandates.

Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a hearing in Washington, Sept. 14, 2022. Fauci, who left the government in 2022, is facing heated questioning from Republican lawmakers about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The top U.S. infectious disease expert until 2022, Fauci was grilled by the House panel behind closed doors in January. On Monday, June 3, 2024, they&#x27;re questioning him again, in public and on camera. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Fauci, still crazy after all these years

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Had the concept of God-given individual rights and liberties been in play during the coronavirus years, America never would have reached the point where then-COVID policy czar Anthony Fauci was allowed to dictate-while-pretending-Not-To-Dictate how free citizens live their lives.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, visits a hospital in western Syria, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Albam) ** FILE **
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WHO pandemic treaty utterly unacceptable for America

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The World Health Organization is finalizing with its partner states the details of a pandemic treaty that is supposed to protect the citizens of the globe from future COVID-like devastations. America's only suitable response is to tell the WHO to take a hike.