Data from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the vast majority of people dying from COVID-19 in England and Wales have had underlying health problems. Of 152,872 deaths recorded within 28 days of a positive test since the start of the pandemic, only 17,371 were attributed solely to the coronavirus.

Early in the pandemic, multiple scientists urged NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to seriously consider the theory that Covid escaped from a Chinese laboratory, arguing that the lab-leak theory, which Fauci and Collins have downplayed since the pandemic began, was more plausible than the natural origin explanation.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says that a fourth COVID vaccine will be given to health workers and people aged over 60.