SYDNEY—Australia’s core inflation flew to its fastest annual pace since 2014 in the December quarter as fuel and housing costs led broad-based price pressures, a shock that will stoke market speculation of an early hike in interest rates. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics out on Tuesday showed the headline consumer price index (CPI)…
Hong Kong’s Financial Sector Faces Talent Crunch as Expats Head for the Exit
HONG KONG—Late last year, Tania Sibree quit her well-paid job as a financial services lawyer in Hong Kong and returned to Australia rather than live a moment longer with the city’s strict coronavirus restrictions. Sibree, who said she had enjoyed the previous five years in Hong Kong, is one of hundreds—possibly thousands—of foreign expatriate professionals…
WHO Says Pandemic Not Over Yet, Omicron Won’t Be Last ‘Variant of Concern’
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over as new variants of the novel coronavirus are likely to emerge given current high levels of transmission, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday. The Omicron variant, which is highly transmissible, is unlikely to be the last strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, as the…
Fauci Says Too Soon to Tell Whether Omicron Will Bring Pandemic to an End
It’s too soon to know whether the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus will bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday. “It’s an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination everyone is hoping for,” Fauci said via videoconference at the…
Studies Find Natural Treatments for Coronavirus
Contrary to what mass mainstream media would have you assume, coronaviruses aren’t uncharted territory. In fact, human coronaviruses are responsible for 15-30% of common colds each year. More severe cases of coronavirus infections were observed during outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (MERS), two coronavirus infections that led to pneumonia in…
2 Mouthwashes Disrupt the Coronavirus in Lab Tests
Two types of mouthwash disrupt SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, preventing it from replicating in a human cell, a new study suggests. The study in the journal Pathogens finds that, in a laboratory setting, Listerine and the prescription mouthwash Chlorhexidine disrupted the virus within seconds after researchers diluted it to concentrations that would mimic actual use….
Team Finds ‘Footprint’ of Coronavirus Outbreak From 20K Years Ago
Traces of the outbreak are evident in the genetic makeup of people from that area, they’ve found. The researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500 modern humans from 26 worldwide populations, to better understand how humans have adapted to historical coronavirus outbreaks. The team used computational methods to uncover genetic traces of adaptation to…
High Heat Disarms Coronavirus in Less Than a Second
A new experimental system shows exposure of coronavirus to a very high temperature, even if applied for less than a second, can be sufficient to neutralize the virus so that it can no longer infect another human host. Applying heat to neutralize COVID-19 has been demonstrated before, but in previous studies researchers applied temperatures from…
They Said They Would Slow the Spread
Commentary It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions, backtracks, experts speaking out, public outrage, and what strikes me as a progressive unraveling of every orthodoxy imposed nearly two years ago. Not even the influential and powerful are in a position to defend…
CDC Estimates 58.6 Percent of US Cases Are Omicron, Significantly Downgrades Earlier Projection
The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is estimated to have taken over Delta as the most prevalent strain contributing to new COVID-19 infections, accounting for 58.6 percent of all strains actively circulating in the United States as of Dec. 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, as it drastically revised an earlier…
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