Many energy company’s stocks—and their dividends—took a big hit earlier in the pandemic, even those of large firms. The global economy contracted along with oil and gas prices, forcing many companies ...
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Annual Covid Booster? Vaccination May Soon Resemble Flu Shot Approach, White House Says
Topline The U.S. will likely shift to offering Covid-19 booster vaccines on a yearly basis like flu shots, White House officials said Tuesday, as the administration begins to roll out a new booster sh...
People who recently caught Covid can wait to get omicron booster, health official says
People walk by a Covid-19 testing site at Times Square on May 12, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images People who recently caught Covid can wait a few months to get a ne...
BD Chases End-To-End Supply Chain Visibility
Sign with logo at regional headquarters of medical technology company Becton Dickinson (BD) in … [+] Silicon Valley, Menlo Park, California, November 14, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Ge...
Qualcomm’s Answer To The Chip Shortage? A Digital Transformation
production of central processing units, gloved hand holds a cpu. Global chip shortage concept getty It has been a challenging few years for semiconductor manufacturers. Many industries served by semic...
Mystery Respiratory Illness In Argentina Prompts Investigation After 3 People Die
Topline Three people have died from a mysterious respiratory illness in Argentina this week, local health authorities announced on Thursday, with experts hunting for the cause after ruling out common ...
CDC Advisory Panel Recommends New Covid Booster Shots Targeting Omicron—Here’s What You Need To Know
Topline A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Thursday recommended Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s updated Covid-19 booster shots targeting the extremely contagious omicron ...
Three Covid Vaccine Doses Better Than Two Against Omicron Infections, New Study Reinforces
Topline Three doses of a Covid-19 vaccine provide stronger protection against the highly contagious omicron variant than two primary series doses, according to a new Danish study, a finding that provi...
CDC panel recommends new omicron Covid boosters with shots expected to begin next week
Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent committee on vaccines recommended reformulated booster shots that target the latest omicron subvariant...
U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths
People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing fo...
New China Lockdown Hits 21 Million People In Chengdu Amid ‘Zero Covid’ Push
Topline Chinese officials will lock down the city of Chengdu on Thursday in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19, confining millions to their homes and closing business in one of China’s largest a...
As Pro Golf Feuds, The Recreational Game Continues To Boom
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy have recently risen to an even greater level of visibility in the … [+] professional golf space. But the golf industry, more broadly, is really driven by the game...
Don’t Mistake Today’s “Whack-A-Mole” Logistics Regime For A New Era Of Global Supply Chain Management
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Container ships anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Getty Images The on-going rotation of congestion around the world—both within and among countries, from Chin...
Two Years Of Covid Caused The Steepest Drop In U.S. Life Expectancy In Nearly 100 Years, CDC Data Reveals
Topline Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021—largely fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic—according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Covid Has Reached Every Corner Of The World—But These Three Places Claim To Be Virus-Free
Topline The highly transmissible omicron variant has whittled down the list of countries that have managed to escape the Covid-19 pandemic so far, breaking through the longstanding defenses of numerou...
Skipped Health Care Visits May Have Caused More Than 100,000 Maternal And Child Deaths In Vulnerable Countries During Pandemic, Study Finds
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic may have fueled higher levels of maternal and child mortality in more than a dozen of the world’s poorest countries by causing women and children to skip health care visi...
Raffles Medical Group Sees China On The Mend From Covid As Its Expansion Continues
Dr. Vincent Chia, managing director of Raffles China Healthcare, a subsidiary of Raffles Medical … [+] Group in Singapore, joined the 2022 Forbes China Healthcare Summit this month. Forbes China...
Struggling with long Covid? Here’s what you should and should not eat
Fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations and breathing difficulties. Those are just some of the common symptoms of “long Covid” that can affect people in the long term after recovery from i...
Physicians Would Need Almost 27 Hours A Day To Provide Optimal Patient Care, Per New Study
In a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers found that in order to provide guideline-recommended care, a primary care physician would require nearly 26.7 hours pe...
The Healthcare Industry Is Crumbling Due To Staffing Shortages
The “great resignation” alongside the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the way people think about work. Indeed, for many industries over the last year, finding sustainable and reliable employees has bee...
Xintiandi Developer Shui On Sees Possible “Golden Era” After Profit Drops By 58% Amid Shanghai Lockdowns
Xintandi office buildings located in central Shanghai. (Photo by Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Profit at Shui On Land, the Hong Kong-headquartered developer of Shanghai’s ...
Qantas CEO blames ‘little’ government help and Covid for lagging peers
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told CNBC the airline was not able to return to profit as quickly as other carriers like those in Singapore because it did not receive as much government support and faced a R...
Does Government Spending Cause Inflation?
Getty Images Key takeaways Inflation occurs when the cost of goods and services rises over time Several factors contribute to inflation generally, and today’s inflation in particular, including consum...
IRS Forgives Penalties For Millions Of Taxpayers Who Filed Late—Here’s Who Qualifies
Topline The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it will waive and refund penalties for Americans who filed their 2019 or 2020 tax returns late, as the agency struggles with a massive Covid-imposed...
‘Covid winners’ like DocuSign still have time to reinvent
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday lamented the languishing stocks of pandemic winners like DocuSign — but suggested the window of reinvention has not been slammed shut just yet. “We know it has...
The Healthcare System Is Facing Higher Acuity And More Sick Patients
Though the Covid-19 pandemic truly tested the capabilities of healthcare systems worldwide, the aftermath has created a similar problem: patients are sicker than ever before, and are requiring higher ...
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid Vaccine Is 73% Effective In Young Children, Study Finds
Topline Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is effective in preventing illness from Covid-19 in nearly three in four young children and it provides protection across Covid-19 variants, according to a n...
XPeng, China’s EV Startup, To Report Earnings, As Covid Stunts Economy
XPeng (XPEV), China’s electric-vehicle startup and aspiring Tesla (TSLA) challenger, reports earnings Tuesday. While the company’s vehicle deliveries ballooned in July, economic turbulence...
Regular Exercise Slashes Risk Of Covid, Study Suggests
Topline Regular exercise can reduce the risk of contracting Covid-19 or developing severe disease, according to a large study published Monday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, backing a weal...
Education Secretary Pushes States To Use Covid Relief Funds To Aid Teacher Shortage
Topline States struggling to hire and retain educators should turn to federal stimulus money to address a nationwide teacher shortage, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Sunday, as hundreds of...