In the ongoing game of coronavirus-based conspiracy theory whack-a-mole, yet another seemingly credible claim that the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was manufactured in a lab has surfaced, this time from a study that claimed that the virus showed signs of being deliberately tampered with. The study was widelyread more

The medical journal The Lancet has retracted a paper that had previously brought global clinical trials on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 to a halt, due to the discovery of serious problems regarding the data presented in the paper. The paper’s retraction was requested by its lead author, Professorread more

A new cluster of COVID-19 cases in northeastern China has prompted authorities to impose a lockdown on over 100 million Chinese citizens in the cities of Shulan, Jilin city and Shengyang, with health officials reporting that this resurgence of the coronavirus appears to act differently than the original outbreak inread more