COVID-19

Greece to Exhume 150 COVID-19 Graves After Bodies Fail to Decompose

Municipal authorities in Kavala, northern Greece, have announced plans to exhume approximately 150 graves of individuals who died from COVID-19, after discovering that the bodies have failed to decompose five years after burial. The unexpected complication stems from stringent pandemic-era...

The White House Pressured Facebook to Censor COVID-19 Content

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets submitting to what he says was pressure by The White House to censor posts about COVID-19 on Facebook and Instagram, Meta's two main social media platforms. Zuckerberg claims senior officials of the Biden...

Australia Now Guarantees Workers the Right to Disconnect

Remote work is here to stay and has drastically changed work life worldwide, but it has largely gone unregulated by governments. However, as of today, this is no longer the case in Australia. Beginning today, Monday, August 26th, the new...

Doctors Start Trials of mRNA Vaccine for Lung Cancer

Doctors in seven countries have started the world's first patient trials of a new mRNA vaccine against lung cancer. The lung cancer vaccine, known as BNT116 and developed by Germany's BioNTech, is designed to target non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC),...

President Joe Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 in Las Vegas. The White House has briefed the media on the President's condition, and he is currently showing "mild symptoms" from the infection. After flying from Las Vegas to his home...

AstraZeneca Withdraws Vaccine Citing Surplus of Newer Shots

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has withdrawn its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, citing the surplus of newer vaccines as its reason. It was announced for the first time two weeks ago that its vaccine can cause a rare side effect. AstraZeneca, which developed...

Scarabs, Evil Eyes: Ancient Amulets and Disease

Believed to possess magical qualities, ancient amulets were once widely used. They range from amber pendants worn during Denmark’s Mesolithic age to evil eyes in ancient Greece. By Marguerite Johnson Throughout antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Egypt and today’s Middle East,...

Spike of Covid-19 Cases Recorded in Greece

A spike in Covid-19 infections has been recorded in Greece over the festive season with experts warning that the peak of the current outbreak will be the end of January. On January 1st, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY)...

Pfizer Pouring COVID Profits into Cancer Battle, CEO Bourla Says

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is pouring the windfall profits from its COVID-19 vaccine into developing products to battle cancer, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said at a Reuters event on Thursday. "Pfizer is giving all the profits that we made from COVID...