THINK TANK DAILY™ · ISSUE 063 · HEALTH

Russia Says It Wasn’t Plague. The Tank Says We Still Don’t Know.

A lab worker died and roughly 200 contacts were quarantined. Russia reports negative testing, but no outside laboratory has independently verified the pathogen. The Think Tank concludes the case remains unresolved and Russian anti-plague reporting should be treated as a national self-report, not independent verification.