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Whistleblower offers window into HHS’s flawed COVID-19 response – Reuters

A new whistleblower complaint has drawn attention for its allegations that the Trump administration retaliated against a scientist who sent early coronavirus warnings. The case also provides an insider account of the dysfunction critics say paralyzed the Department of Health and Human Services at the dawn of the COVID-19 response.

Source: Whistleblower offers window into HHS’s flawed COVID-19 response – Reuters

Malaria drug touted by Trump for coronavirus fails another test – Reuters

The malaria treatment repeatedly championed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against the novel coronavirus has again failed to show a benefit in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a study released on Thursday.

Source: Malaria drug touted by Trump for coronavirus fails another test – Reuters

Angela Merkel reins in German states with rules on easing lockdown

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Chancellor says ‘emergency mechanism’ can be used to control local Covid-19 outbreaks

Angela Merkel has introduced some new ground rules for relaxing physical-distancing restrictions in an attempt to reassert her authority over Germany’s 16 federal states, some of whom have announced unilateral re-opening plans.

In recent days the German chancellor has struggled to preserve a fragile compromise over the introduction of nationwide lockdown measures bartered with federal states in mid-March.

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‘Promiscuous treatment of nature’ will lead to more pandemics – scientists | Environment | The Guardian

Habitat destruction forces wildlife into human environments, where new diseases flourish

Source: ‘Promiscuous treatment of nature’ will lead to more pandemics – scientists | Environment | The Guardian