andresr | E+ | Getty Images Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, many small businesses are still struggling. While financial assistance for those impacted by the crisis has ended, some of the ...
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GSK, Vir Say Their Covid Antibody Treatment Can Neutralize Fast-Spreading Omicron Relative
Topline A Covid-19 antibody treatment developed by Vir Biotechnology and GlaxoSmithKline is still capable of neutralizing the infectious omicron subvariant, BA.2, Vir announced Thursday, offering earl...
Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Philippines reopen for travel
Another day — another border reopens. In the past two weeks, a slew of countries announced plans to reopen or relax border restrictions. This includes places that have maintained some of the str...
New York Gov. Hochul expected to lift indoor mask mandate
[The stream is slated to start at 11:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to drop the state’s strict indoor ...
CDC tells health officials to expect first shipments of young kids’ Covid shots by Feb. 21
A healthcare worker prepares to administer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11-year-old in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 22, 20...
Why the U.S. is facing a paint shortage
Demand for raw materials in the paint industry soared over the pandemic as quarantined consumers took to DIY projects and home improvement. But supply just couldn’t keep up. “The raw-mater...
Pfizer CEO says chances are ‘very high’ FDA will approve low-dose Covid shots for kids under 5
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday said he believes the Food and Drug Administration will authorize the company’s Covid vaccine for children under 5 years old under a fast-track process that al...
WHO says new omicron BA.2 subvariant will rise globally
RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Ge...
Johnson & Johnson plant pauses Covid vaccine production, report says
Syringes and a box of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The only Johnson & Johnson facility currently making usable batches of the companyR...
Pfizer (PFE) earnings Q4 2021
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Bel...
Covid-19 Raises Risk Of Pregnancy Complications—Including Death Around Birth, Preterm Delivery And Postpartum Hemorrhage—Study Finds
Topline Pregnant people infected with Covid appear to be more likely to experience serious complications or die during pregnancy than those who aren’t infected with the coronavirus, according to new p...
Though rare, Moderna Covid vaccine recipients have higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer
Moderna’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is associated with a higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer’s, but the benefits of both companies’ shots outweigh the risks, according to a...
Moderna’s Covid vaccine for teens awaits OK as regulators review heart inflammation risk
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images For months, the authorization of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for teenagers has been o...
at-home testing, from Covid to cancer, worth $2 billion dollars
The at-home testing market is bigger than just Covid tests, and it’s bigger than over-the-counter pregnancy tests. In fact, the emerging marketplace of consumer-initiated lab testing may be wort...
Merck (MRK) earnings Q4 2021
Merck sold $952 million of its Covid-19 treatment pill molnupiravir in the fourth quarter, saying Thursday it’s on track to sell another $5 billion to $6 billion more this year. Most of its sale...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
Americans are ready to travel as their omicron fears fade
Göreme, in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey. Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Americans’ enthusiasm for travel has rebounded to levels unseen since the broad rollout of Covid-19 vacci...
WHO says the new omicron subvariant doesn’t appear to be more severe than the original
WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel c...
Here’s What We Know About ‘Stealth’ Omicron BA.2 — The More Infectious Subvariant Better Able To Infect Vaccinated People
Topline A close relative of the omicron coronavirus variant—known as BA.2 and dubbed “stealth omicron” by some scientists—is more infectious and better at infecting vaccinated people, a Danish study h...
BA.2 more contagious, but vaccinated less likely to spread it, study finds
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The omicron BA.2 subvariant i...
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner’s small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy: Mark Shriner Mark Shriner needed help. It was spring 2020, and his coffee shop in Linc...
Moderna Faces Challenges Beyond the Covid Vaccine. Its Stock Is Still a Buy for the Long Term.
In 2019, four pharmaceutical giants shared virtually all of the $33 billion worth of vaccine revenue earned worldwide. The pandemic has upended the vaccine business. Moderna has sold or contracted to ...