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Explainer: Why the U.S. has banned funding for Chinese lab at center of pandemic origin dispute
In a move that has more symbolic than practical impact, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed new sanctions on a Chinese lab at the center of the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. A nine-page HHS memo made public by a House subcommittee that ’s investigating the pandemic ’s origin suspends and proposes debarment of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) “from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.” In effect, this bars WIV from receiving U.S. government funding now and possibly ever. The ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Structural Racism and the Social Determinants of Health in Asthma
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023;1426:101-115. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32259-4_5.ABSTRACTAsthma prevalence and morbidity are disproportionately higher among minoritized communities in the United States. Racial and ethnic disparities in asthma result from complex interactions across biological, environmental, and social factors. Asthma is considered a complex heterogeneous disease consisting of different phenotypes, some of which may be more common in individuals impacted by the downstream effects of structural racism and lack of access to the social determinants of health. Structural racism across generations has created and reinforc...
Source: Annual Review of Immunology - July 18, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Adali Martinez Neeta Thakur Source Type: research