Health
Monday 29 May 2023
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“Guided by the humanitarian spirit, we have worked with the U.S. to help solve its fentanyl abuse as much as possible.”
Beijing was backing away from anti-drug cooperation with the U.S. before formally suspending such cooperation amid geopolitical tensions. -
“[O]n December 4, 2022, one new confirmed case of COVID-19 and 195 new asymptomatic infections were reported in Hebei province.”
Abundant social media and news reports suggest COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in Baoding as China moves to relax testing and quarantine rules nationwide. -
“Despite the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is the only country in the world that still has not completed getting rid of them.”
Moscow knows the U.S. is nearly finished destroying its chemical weapons. It’s Russia and ally Syria who’ve kept stocks and used them. -
It's a well-worn Kremlin tactic to blame the West for public discontent in authoritarian countries friendly to Russia.
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“At the Boston University … a weaponized recipe [of coronavirus] was created.”
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"During the special military operation [in Ukraine], many facts were revealed confirming that such laboratories developed components of biological weapons and their means of delivery."
The Kremlin dusted off old falsehoods in an apparent effort to divert attention from embarrassing setbacks in its war on Ukraine. -
“We come to draw a conclusion that we can no longer overlook the uninterrupted influx of rubbish from South Korea.”
In fact, the virus could have entered North Korea from China, and Pyongyang’s poor health system and rejection of vaccine aid worsened matters. -
“‘#Monkypox has never spread like this before’. – Dr. Meryl Nass, former biological warfare epidemiologist discussing the possibility of the virus being a bioweapon…”
“Cut-and-paste” COVID-19 conspiracy theories are being revived for the monkeypox outbreak. -
“It’s been exposed that the United States has been collecting cholera pathogens in Ukraine.”
The Kremlin routinely portrays routine public health work as evidence of U.S. bioweapons, a claim that’s been debunked time and again. -
“Covid-19 may have originated in US biolab – Lancet chair”
Source: RT, July 1, 2022This headline and others oversimplified what two Columbia University academics actually said. Origins of the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic remain in dispute. -
“The United States military does not recognize the United States Supreme Court revoking the constitutional right to abortion, which could turn into a constitutional crisis in the United States.”
The writer, popular on China’s Twitter-like platform, distorts the U.S. defense secretary’s comments after last week’s Supreme Court ruling. -
“On April 21, there were 11 new local cases of death.”
China strictly limits what’s counted as a COVID-19 “death.” True fatalities in the ongoing Shanghai outbreak are likely far higher.