Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Covid scientists pinpoint 'exact location pandemic started' in bombshell studies
dailyrecord.co.ukScientists claim to have discovered the exact location where the Covid pandemic began.Since 2020, the world has been grappling with the virus which has swept the globe as countries issued lockdowns and millions of people died.The origins of the virus has always been a contentious issue with various theories, including some claims it came from a lab leak.But now, two scientific papers have backed a long-held theory that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan, China, the Mirror reports.
The papers, both published by Science, claim the virus was originally transmitted from animals to humans in the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.
Scientists claim that the first Covid cases in humans came from the market in late November and early December 2019 - a whole four months before the UK was plunged into lockdown.Their research suggests that caged animals were infected with the virus and sold at the market.
This led to the spread of the disease to vendors and customers who in turn passed it onto other humans.An international team of scientists conducted the peer-reviewed research and have said that the market was "likely" the “epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic”.In their study, they wrote that knowing the origin of Covid was of vital importance to prevent a similar outbreak in the future.They said: “The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, was identified as a likely source of cases in early reports but later this conclusion became controversial.“We show the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centred on this market.“We report that live SARS-CoV-2 susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and, within the market,
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