Once 70 percent of the state has been vaccinated, Hawaii will drop its quarantine and COVID-19 testing requirements, officials said.

Hawaii will also stop making people wear masks indoors once that level is reached, Hawaii Gov. David Ige told reporters Friday.

So far, 59 percent of Hawaii’s population has had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 52 percent finished their dosing regimen, state health data shows.

Currently, travelers arriving from out of state must spend 10 days in quarantine or show proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken before their departure for the islands at the airport.

Once 60 percent of Hawaii’s population is vaccinated, the state will let travelers skip the quarantine if they can show they were vaccinated in the US.

Restrictions on travel between the islands will open up before that.

At the Wuhan Institute of Virology, “they have published data that they were actually introducing furin cleavage sites,” a mutation that would make a virus much more dangerous, said Dr. Nicole Saphier, Director of Breast Imaging at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Saphier to discuss the Wuhan lab leak theory, Dr. Fauci’s newly released email trove, and her new book, “Panic Attack: Playing Politics With Science in the Fight Against COVID-19.” “When you have the CDC coming out saying young children still need to be wearing masks outdoors, even when they’re physically distancing, until they’re vaccinated—this makes no sense,” Dr. Saphier said. . . .

The U.S. passed the milestone of administering more than 300 million vaccine doses. New cases and deaths continue to plunge and are back to the levels just after U.S. states began imposing restrictions in March 2020.

The U.K. will accelerate its vaccination program in a bid to stay on its path out of lockdown, the Telegraph reported. Meanwhile, civil servants are drawing up contingency plans to delay the June 21 easing of virus restrictions, the Financial Times reported.

China authorized the emergency use of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s coronavirus vaccine for children, becoming the first major country to grant approval for those as young as three. Singapore canceled its Formula One race for a second year because of the pandemic.

Britain will lead the way on vaccine passports at the G7 summit as Boris Johnson is urged to establish globally agreed way of checking who is jabbed and tested to save time for airlines

• Britain will use this week’s summit to develop Covid certification travel scheme
• Boris Johnson urged to set up a globally agreed way to see if people have had jab
• Industry figures warned travel will be ‘paralysed’ in the future without a scheme
• Proposals call for immediate alignment between countries on health certificates

Rep. McCaul: COVID Origin ‘Worst Cover-Up in Human History’

Politico reported:

Texas Rep. Mike McCaul on Sunday said it was “more likely than not” that the coronavirus originated from a lab accident, calling it the “worst cover-up in human history.”

Bipartisan support has grown for a congressional probe into whether the virus originated in a Chinese lab following a Wall Street Journal report that three scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with the virus. . . .

Peter Daszak, who studied controversial “gain of function” experiments on coronavirus elements in Wuhan, received $7.5 million from Anthony Fauci after Trump cancelled his grant.

Last April, reports emerged that the EcoHealth Alliance, an organization run by one Peter Daszak, was involved in funding and collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where researchers were examining coronaviruses extremely similar to the one behind the COVID-19 outbreak, and allegedly engaging in “gain of function” research relating to them. In an April 17th press conference, President Trump confirmed that a grant worth around $3.7 million since 2015 given to Daszak’s group by the National Institute for Health would be ended “very quickly” following the reports.

Only one week later on April 24th, all future funding for the EHA was cut, and they were ordered to stop spending the $369,819 remaining from its 2020 grant. “At this time, NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities,” Michael Lauer, the agency’s deputy director for extramural research, wrote in a letter to EcoHealth Alliance officials.

From within the treasure trove of 3,200 pages of emails obtained from Anthony Fauci, one email can be found from Daszak, who thanked Fauci for dismissing the lab leak theory as being simply conspiratorial the day after President Trump announced the funding would be cut.

“As the PI of the R01 grant publicly targeted by Fox News reporters at the Presidential press briefing last night, I just wanted to say a personal thankyou [sic] on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Daszak said. “From my perspective, your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus’ origins,” he continued, expressing his wish to thank Fauci in person. (READ MORE: Tucker Carlson Says Fauci’s Emails Merit ‘Criminal Investigation’, He May Have Committed ‘Perjury’ In Confrontation With Rand Paul)

Only a few months later in August, Fauci, who along with being put in charge of America’s response to COVID-19, is the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the NIH, helped confirm that Daszak’s organization would receive a new grant of $7.5 million to study coronaviruses as part of a new network.

The CREID network, which contains 11 institutions including the EHA, “coincidentally” will continue to study the emergence of coronaviruses in Southeast Asia. Fauci said that the network will help “enable early warnings of emerging diseases wherever they occur, which will be critical to rapid responses,” while Daszak boasted that they will be working in rural hospitals, according to a statement, “in remote parts of Malaysia and Thailand to get to the front line of where the next pandemic is going to start.”

Questions will be raised as to why Fauci and the NIH reauthorised the grant to Daszak and his organization despite President Trump’s clear opposition to the funding. In a statement on Thursday, President Trump said that he was astonished at the time to hear about the funding of the Wuhan Institute, and said Fauci had a “lot of questions” to answer, especially regarding the alleged “gain of function” research. . .

The following is a news analysis. The Washington Post recently received a treasure trove of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails related to the Covid-19 pandemic and response. Read The Washington Post article here But the shame of it is… under federal law, the emails should have been made public over a year ago. According to Freedom […]

Wednesday was a great day to be Rand Paul. It’s rare that someone gets to wake up in the morning and discover that everything you’ve been saying has been right all along. For Sen. Paul, it’s the #FauciEmails showing everything he and my editor Courtney have said about Anthony Fauci was pretty accurate. At first, Paul only had two words for the media’s favorite bureaucrat. After some time to collect his thoughts, the senator laid out just how serious this is.

Rand Paul on whether there’s ‘criminal culpability’ regarding Dr. Fauci

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At the very least, there’s moral culpability. In the research done by the bat scientist in Wuhan, she gives him credit. She lists the exact NIH grant with a ten-numeral disclaimer or ID number, listing the money and thanking the NIH for the money. It’s clearly “gain of function.” There are several scientists who are in this field, cellular biologists, they all say that taking a SARS virus and adding an S-protein to it to make it infect human cells, that is the very definition of gain of function. It’s very dangerous. We shouldn’t be doing it here or there. But Dr. Fauci has denied it to this day.

But the private e-mails show that he was acknowledging that it was gain of function. Nobody was questioning it. The scientific community needs to look at this, because he hides behind this veil of the lab coat that nobody can question him. … It absolutely was gain of function research. He was funding it. And to this day, he is still saying he would do it again.

If reading the words “gain of function” makes you glassy-eyed and confused … join the club. It ties into the “Wuhan Lab Theory” that Facebook says we’re allowed to talk about now. Best I can tell, think back to Jurassic Park and Jeff Goldblum lambasting the scientist so focused on whether he could, he never thought about whether he should. Only instead of killer dinosaurs, they created a virus that wreaked havoc on the entire planet. DISCLAIMER: I’m a blogger and not a scientist.

Whether or not American taxpayers helped fund this research and/or how much Pope Tony is responsible are excellent questions. Ones that should be investigated via hearings and bipartisan commissions. Two things that Rand Paul says there’s next to no chance of happening. Those would have to be called by the people in charge (Democrats).

In order to do so, they’d have to admit they were wrong this whole time. Also, they’d have to admit that the pandemic restrictions were based on questionable information that we now know was being questioned back then. Also, they’d have to admit that they lacked any curiosity in questioning that information that led to those restrictions. Things that, if it got out to the American people, the American people might be more than mildly annoyed at.

Being proven right is nice and all, but it only goes so far. Now we need answers.

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STOCKHOLM—Sweden’s center-left, minority government failed in several aspects of its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, parliament’s constitutional committee said on Thursday.

The government was slow to put in place a testing and tracing system, failed to protect the elderly and there was a lack of clear lines of responsibility between national and local authorities, the committee said. It did not comment on Sweden’s controversial no-lockdown strategy.

“It is … clear that Sweden was not sufficiently prepared before [the pandemic] and we can learn from many of the underlying failures that have been identified,” Hans Ekstrom, deputy chairman of the committee and a Social Democrat lawmaker, told a hearing. . . .