Kids under 5 can’t get Covid vaccines. Doctors explain how to protect them during omicron

Students in the 5 day pre-K class at Immanuel Unite Church of Christ line up to go outside after helping to sort donated food items. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Covid hospitalizations a...

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents

A respiratory therapist checks on Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is on a ventilator, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Lo...

Singapore will extend Covid booster program to teens aged 12 to 17

Students in protective masks engage in extracurricular activity in school on Jan. 6, 2022 in Singapore. Suhaimi Abdullah | NurPhoto | Getty Images Separately, Singapore shortened the isolation period ...

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Australia’s Last Zero-Covid Holdout Cancels Border Reopening Plans As Omicron Surges Across Country

Topline The state of Western Australia canceled plans to reopen its border to people arriving from neighboring states on February 5 due to the ongoing surge of omicron variant Covid-19 cases in other ...

Pacific Islands’ zero-Covid strategies unsustainable, professor says

People wearing face masks at a supermarket in Suva, Fiji, April 23, 2021. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Countries all over the world have seen Covid-19 cases surge since the emergence of the highl...

Redefining Success In The “New Economy”

We are coming up on two years of life with COVID-19. People are tired of lockdowns. They’re tired of travel restrictions. They’re tired of the ever-evolving virus that causes COVID-19. That exhaustion...

Students allowed despite Covid policies

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border poli...

Pfizer Covid Vaccine For Kids Under 5 Could Be Authorized In The Next Month, Fauci Says

Topline Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine will hopefully be approved  for children under 5 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “within the next month or so,” White House chief medical adviso...

Prior Covid Infection Offered More Protection Against Delta Than Vaccines — But Both Together Did Best

Topline When the coronavirus’ delta variant surged last year, vaccinated people with prior infections were less likely to catch the virus than those who only had immunity from either an earlier case o...

Omicron is milder, but scientists say it’s still too soon to relax

A sign reminding riders to wear a face mask to prevent the spread of Covid-19 appears on a bus on First Street outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday, January 10, 2022. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. |...

Jeff Bezos: Covid-19 earns $ 81.5 billion

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, has earned $81.5 billion from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an Oxfam report. Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi calls on the billionaire to pay res...

The Easiest Automotive Experience Will Attract The Pandemials

Most automakers are scurrying towards the same, non-differentiating place for autonomous, electric … [+] vehicles. But maybe the differentiation will be found in understanding the psychology of ...

ESW Survey Finds Gen Z And Millennials Loathe To Return Unwanted Products

An ESW survey found that Gen Z Millennials don’t return products that don’t fit or are the wrong … [+] color, and other reasons. Courtesy of ESW Consumers in 2020 returned products w...

Oxfam on Covid inequality, tax rich to pay for vaccines, protect climate

A pedestrian wearing a face mask delivers food to a homeless person sleeping in the entrance of a shop, closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AF...

Dogs Can Sniff Out Long Covid-19, French Study Suggests

Topline A study by French researchers suggests that trained dogs can detect Covid-19 in patients who have had the virus for as long as a year and half, echoing studies conducted in the United States, ...

New York Covid numbers are finally trending down, Gov. Hochul says

Governor Kathy Hochul holds a COVID-19 briefing at New York City governor’s office on 633 3rd Avenue. Lev Radin | LightRocket | Getty Images New York is finally starting to turn the corner on th...

Biden administration threatens to claw back Covid funds from Arizona over school anti-mask policies

U.S. first lady Jill Biden speaks with people during a tour of a COVID-19 vaccination site at Isaac Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, June 30, 2021. Carolyn Kaster | Pool | Reuters The Biden administ...

On The Hunt For New Asset Classes

The race to discover new asset classes is on! Matthias Meyer on Unsplash The primary objective of family offices is wealth preservation and growth to ensure long-term recurring revenue for generations...

President Biden Is Deploying The Military To Support Hospitals Overwhelmed With Covid-19

Yet again, hospitals and healthcare systems are getting crushed by Covid-19. For many healthcare professionals and front-line workers, this is eerily reminiscent of March 2020, when much was still unk...

Supreme Court blocks Biden Covid vaccine mandate for businesses, allows health-care worker rule

A demonstrator holds a “Freedoms & Mandates Don’t Mix” sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court during arguments on two federal coronavirus vaccine mandate measures in Washington, D.C...

White House To Order 500 Million Additional Covid-19 Tests And Plans To Make Higher-Quality Masks Available

Topline President Joe Biden said Thursday his administration will make higher-quality masks available to Americans for free next week, and announced a new order of 500 million Covid-19 tests to be dis...

Omicron will challenge Hong Kong’s zero-Covid policy: Ex-U.S. diplomat

The highly transmissible omicron variant is going to be a “very difficult challenge” for Hong Kong as the city sticks to its zero-Covid policy, a former U.S. diplomat told CNBC. There will...

Newly Approved Covid Protocol And Reduced Stadium Capacity Could Further Reduce Matchday Revenue For Serie A Clubs

Giuseppe Meazza Stadium (San Siro) deserted for Serie A match Milan-Genoa after the extraordinary … [+] law decree passed by the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte which turns the Lombardy Region and...

Bill Gates Believes Covid-19 May Eventually Be Treated Like The Seasonal Flu; Here’s What That Means

As variant after variant of Covid-19 has boldly emerged over the last two years, public health experts and individuals worldwide have the same question in mind: when will the world be free of this dev...

Higher-Grade Masks Beginning To Be Required In Public Places Across U.S.

Topline With experts warning that cloth masks are insufficient to protect against the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant of coronavirus, some counties, universities and museums around ...

Three Ways The U.S. Government Can Fight The Omicron Wave

Patients with Covid-19 now comprise 25% of occupied hospital beds in the U.S. AFP via Getty Images Dr. Anand Parekh, chief medical advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center, discusses how the U.S. can ...

Will Athletes Who Recently Tested Positive For Covid – Including Shaun White, Alysa Liu – Be Allowed Entry?

Topline A number of U.S. Olympic team members and hopefuls have recently revealed that they tested positive for Covid-19 roughly a month before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, raising the sp...

Travel is ‘roaring back’ — That’s good and bad for travelers

Last year wasn’t a stellar year for travelers. Perhaps that’s why so many are pinning their hopes on 2022.  Travel bookings and inquiries are surging, say travel insiders, in an upward tra...

U.S. Covid Hospitalizations Set New Record — Especially In These States

Topline The number of Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 soared to record levels Tuesday, as the country faces a surge in coronavirus infections driven by the omicron variant — and some states are b...

Here’s how to make sure a Covid test you buy online isn’t fake

Hache | E+ | Getty Images New Covid cases are rising fast and at-home rapid tests are in high demand. But consumers scrambling to buy tests online — especially as brick-and-mortar retailers sell out o...

Everything you need to know about the new, free at-home Covid tests

SolStock | E+ | Getty Images During these hard times, at least one thing should should soon get easier: Getting tested for Covid-19. Starting Saturday, many people will be able to get free at-home tes...