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EU Launches New Strategy to Prevent Future Health Crises
The EU launched a new medical countermeasures strategy to improve preparedness for future health crises, addressing various threats from pandemics to chemical attacks and aiming for faster, more equitable access to essential medical resources across member states.
EU Launches New Strategy to Prevent Future Health Crises
The EU launched a new medical countermeasures strategy to improve preparedness for future health crises, addressing various threats from pandemics to chemical attacks and aiming for faster, more equitable access to essential medical resources across member states.
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36% Bias Score
Trump Administration Cuts Jeopardize Pandemic and Coastal Hazard Research
In April 2025, the Trump administration cut funding for several federally funded research projects focused on pandemic preparedness and coastal hazard mitigation, jeopardizing crucial research on broad-spectrum antivirals and early warning systems for storm surges, despite the ongoing need for these...
Trump Administration Cuts Jeopardize Pandemic and Coastal Hazard Research
In April 2025, the Trump administration cut funding for several federally funded research projects focused on pandemic preparedness and coastal hazard mitigation, jeopardizing crucial research on broad-spectrum antivirals and early warning systems for storm surges, despite the ongoing need for these...
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36% Bias Score
EU Unveils Strategy to Enhance Health Crisis Preparedness
The EU unveiled a new Medical Countermeasures Strategy to enhance preparedness for future health threats, proposing 17 actions for improved access to resources like vaccines and PPE, addressing issues from pandemic viruses to antimicrobial resistance, while facing challenges in resource stockpiling ...
EU Unveils Strategy to Enhance Health Crisis Preparedness
The EU unveiled a new Medical Countermeasures Strategy to enhance preparedness for future health threats, proposing 17 actions for improved access to resources like vaccines and PPE, addressing issues from pandemic viruses to antimicrobial resistance, while facing challenges in resource stockpiling ...
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28% Bias Score
US Pandemic Preparedness Severely Weakened
Dismissals of health advisors and staff, alongside inadequate responses to bird flu and measles outbreaks, have left the US alarmingly less prepared for a future pandemic than in 2020, jeopardizing public health and highlighting systemic issues.
US Pandemic Preparedness Severely Weakened
Dismissals of health advisors and staff, alongside inadequate responses to bird flu and measles outbreaks, have left the US alarmingly less prepared for a future pandemic than in 2020, jeopardizing public health and highlighting systemic issues.
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40% Bias Score
UK Funding Cut to Gavi Risks Lives and Soft Power
The UK's potential funding cut to Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, risks undermining its soft power, reducing disease resilience, and causing avoidable child deaths, according to leading scientists and aid experts, despite the UK's previous £2bn contribution.
UK Funding Cut to Gavi Risks Lives and Soft Power
The UK's potential funding cut to Gavi, a global vaccine alliance, risks undermining its soft power, reducing disease resilience, and causing avoidable child deaths, according to leading scientists and aid experts, despite the UK's previous £2bn contribution.
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48% Bias Score
Avian Influenza Threatens Elephant Seal Populations
An avian influenza outbreak in late 2023 killed over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups in Argentina, prompting concerns about similar outbreaks among northern elephant seals in North America due to their low genetic diversity and proximity to shorebirds. Monitoring efforts are underway, but governm...
Avian Influenza Threatens Elephant Seal Populations
An avian influenza outbreak in late 2023 killed over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups in Argentina, prompting concerns about similar outbreaks among northern elephant seals in North America due to their low genetic diversity and proximity to shorebirds. Monitoring efforts are underway, but governm...
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36% Bias Score
Brandenburg Revises Pandemic Plan After COVID-19 Criticism
Brandenburg, Germany is overhauling its pandemic plan, prompted by criticism of its past performance and a need to balance public health with individual freedoms. The revision considers logistical challenges in maintaining pandemic supplies and resource allocation.
Brandenburg Revises Pandemic Plan After COVID-19 Criticism
Brandenburg, Germany is overhauling its pandemic plan, prompted by criticism of its past performance and a need to balance public health with individual freedoms. The revision considers logistical challenges in maintaining pandemic supplies and resource allocation.
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32% Bias Score
Germany to Form Commission to Investigate Corona Pandemic Response
Germany's Bundestag will establish an Enquete commission to comprehensively review the Corona pandemic's impact, including governmental and societal responses, aiming to provide recommendations for future pandemic preparedness by mid-2027.
Germany to Form Commission to Investigate Corona Pandemic Response
Germany's Bundestag will establish an Enquete commission to comprehensively review the Corona pandemic's impact, including governmental and societal responses, aiming to provide recommendations for future pandemic preparedness by mid-2027.
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28% Bias Score
CDC Ends H5N1 Bird Flu Emergency Response
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its H5N1 bird flu emergency response on July 2, 2025, due to the absence of human cases since February 2025, despite the virus affecting nearly 175 million birds in the US since 2022 and spreading globally to mammals, including a significant im...
CDC Ends H5N1 Bird Flu Emergency Response
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its H5N1 bird flu emergency response on July 2, 2025, due to the absence of human cases since February 2025, despite the virus affecting nearly 175 million birds in the US since 2022 and spreading globally to mammals, including a significant im...
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40% Bias Score
US Shift Away From mRNA Vaccines Raises Pandemic Preparedness Concerns
The US government's actions, including the cancellation of a $766 million bird flu vaccine contract and new restrictions on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, raise concerns about the country's pandemic preparedness and future vaccine development. These decisions follow the dismissal of top vaccine officials a...
US Shift Away From mRNA Vaccines Raises Pandemic Preparedness Concerns
The US government's actions, including the cancellation of a $766 million bird flu vaccine contract and new restrictions on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, raise concerns about the country's pandemic preparedness and future vaccine development. These decisions follow the dismissal of top vaccine officials a...
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60% Bias Score
Trump Administration's Cancellation of Flu Vaccine Contracts Weakens U.S. Pandemic Preparedness
The Trump administration canceled $766 million in contracts for mRNA flu vaccine development, weakening U.S. pandemic preparedness and potentially leading to reliance on other countries for vaccines in a future pandemic; this decision follows broader cuts to health agencies and research budgets, exa...
Trump Administration's Cancellation of Flu Vaccine Contracts Weakens U.S. Pandemic Preparedness
The Trump administration canceled $766 million in contracts for mRNA flu vaccine development, weakening U.S. pandemic preparedness and potentially leading to reliance on other countries for vaccines in a future pandemic; this decision follows broader cuts to health agencies and research budgets, exa...
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60% Bias Score
UK's COVID-19 Testing: A Critical Analysis
The UK's COVID-19 testing strategy, initially lacking a plan, involved a peak daily processing of 800,000 tests, contacting over 16 million positive cases and 31 million contacts; however, experts criticize the decision to centralize testing, neglecting existing resources, leaving the UK unprepared ...
UK's COVID-19 Testing: A Critical Analysis
The UK's COVID-19 testing strategy, initially lacking a plan, involved a peak daily processing of 800,000 tests, contacting over 16 million positive cases and 31 million contacts; however, experts criticize the decision to centralize testing, neglecting existing resources, leaving the UK unprepared ...
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48% Bias Score
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