ONI report on Covid Origins delivered to congress:
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf

Summary: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/covid-19-origins-wuhan-lab-leak-us-intelligence-reports

US intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic stemmed from an incident at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a report declassified on Friday said.

Republicans now calling for all intelligence reports with any connection to COVID origins to be declassified: https://thehill.com/homenews/4066839-gop-house-intel-chair-wants-covid-origins-declassified/


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Updated COVID booster shots this fall aim to protect against newer coronavirus versions

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/covid-booster-new-vaccine-18167895.php

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on June 15 that updated vaccines target XBB.1.5. But drugmakers were working months before the FDA’s go-ahead to develop a shot focused at that subvariant and others, ensuring they’d be able to quickly scale up production no matter which strain regulators settled on.



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U.S. Vaccine Program Now Flush With Cash, but Short on Key Details
A $5 billion federal program aims to make better Covid vaccines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/health/covid-vaccines-nextgen.html

Efforts to develop the next generation of Covid vaccines are running up against bureaucratic hassles and regulatory uncertainty, scientists say, obstacles that could make it harder to curb the spread of the coronavirus and arm the United States against future pandemics.

The Biden administration, after months of delay, has now addressed at least a shortfall in funding, hurrying to issue the first major grants from a $5 billion program to expedite a new class of more potent and durable inoculations.

But the program is facing the blunt reality that vaccine development, after being shifted into high gear early in the pandemic, has returned to its slower and more customary pace.

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CDC tracking new COVID variant EU.1.1
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-covid-variant-eu-1-1-cdc/

The variant is a more distant descendant of the XBB.1.5 variant that had surged earlier this year, with a handful of more mutations to its spike protein that may be driving its spread.

The CDC estimates that EU.1.1 is now 1.7% of U.S. cases nationwide, but may have already reached as much as 8.7% of cases in the region spanning Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.

It is too early to know whether EU.1.1 will lead to new or different symptoms in the U.S.

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Getting COVID-19 causes long-term drop in semen quality: study
https://www.nbcrightnow.com/lifestyles/health/getting-covid-19-causes-long-term-drop-in-semen-quality-study/article_5a02b277-492e-5bbd-bb6f-0f06b7fd3d98.html

Men suffer a long-term drop in semen quality after COVID-19 - even if the infection was mild, reveals new research.

Scientists found that more than three months after suffering from mild COVID-19 infection, men have lower sperm concentrations and fewer sperm that are able to swim.

Professor Rocio Núñez-Calonge said that after an average of 100 days following infection there appeared to be no improvement in sperm quality and concentration, even though new sperm would have been produced in that time.

Núñez-Calonge said: “There have been previous studies that show semen quality is affected in the short term following a COVID infection but, as far as we are aware, none that have followed men for a longer period of time.

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