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Covid Stocks Face Their Next Challenge And There Are Billions Of Dollars At Stake
The Biden administration is planning to stop paying for Covid vaccines and treatments, shifting the financial burden to consumers as the pandemic relief fund dries up. The move is likely to generate a...
Covid Increases Risk Of Mental Illness And Brain Disease Up To Two Years After Infection, Study Suggests
Topline People who have had Covid-19 are at an increased risk of mental health and neurological conditions—including seizures, dementia, psychotic disorders and brain fog—two years after infection, ac...
CDC Director Walensky Announces Major Agency Changes After Covid Missteps
Topline Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Wednesday she will make major modifications to the agency’s structure, including staffing changes a...
Teens’ Protection From Pfizer’s Covid Shot Fades Weeks After Vaccination—But Shot Still Wards Off Serious Illness, Study Finds
Topline The effectiveness of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine in teens fades rapidly in the weeks after vaccination, according to research published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, a finding tha...
Many Infected With Omicron Covid Infections Don’t Know, Study Suggests
Topline Some 56% of a sample of people who tested positive for Covid-19 during the winter omicron surge were not aware they had the coronavirus, a new study found, adding to concerns that low levels o...
CDC admits Covid response fell short, launches reorganization
Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, Director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC. Joe...
Tencent Q2 2022 Financial Report Falls Short of Revenue Forecasts for First Time Due to Covid Resurgence, Gaming Regulation
Tencent ascribed its disappointing Q2 2022 report due to a number of macroeconomic factors. These include Covid resurgence-induced lockdowns and tighter gaming laws for minors Tencent recently posted ...
Travel’s Uneven Covid Recovery Sees Record Revenues, Lessons And Lingering Obstacles
Despite the chaos at airports, airline cancelations and staffing shortages, travel industry executives attending Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas say consumers should begin to see their experiences r...
Strike At Iowa Army Ammunition Plant Could Have Big Consequences For Ukrainian Army
A strike may disrupt America’s ammunition supply chain AFP via Getty Images Far from the Ukrainian front lines, labor trouble is brewing at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. After a set of union c...
Israel Busts Crypto Laundering Op Over French Covid Relief Fraud
Alleged fraudsters in France reportedly set up hoax businesses to receive governmental COVID-19 relief The funds were then sent to suspected money launders in Israel, who washed them via cryptocurrenc...
Is The Crypto Collapse Permanent Or Merely A Crypto Winter?
Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images Cryptocurrency is part of an exciting technology wave, but is it here to stay? With Bitcoin now more than ten years old, cryptocurrency...
State Fairs Hope To Put Disease And Deficits Behind Them In Their First Full-Throttle Season Since Covid
Corn dogs will fry. Pigs will parade. Butter cows will greet visitors from their climate-controlled enclosures. This month is go-time for Ferris wheels, bacon-wrapped beef on a stick and llamas dresse...
Illumina Stock Crashes As Covid, China Hammer Second-Quarter Results
Illumina stock crashed Friday after the DNA sequencer broadly lagged Wall Street’s quarterly forecasts and slashed its outlook for the year. X The struggles stem from macro challenges, Canaccord...
Doing Business In China Is Getting Harder: U.S.-China Business Forum
Sean Stein Forbes China At the start of 2022, American companies on the ground in China were optimistic about the business outlook, surveys found. Confidence had rebounded to pre-2017 levels, based in...
Not Your Hot-Tip-From-Your-Brother-In-Law Biotech Stock
Better-than-expected Covid-19 vaccine sales pushed Moderna past Wall Street’s 2022 second-quarter … [+] forecasts. The company said Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, that its Spikevax vaccine brought in ...
China tourist destination set a GDP target, but Covid locked it down
Sanya, on the southern coast of Hainan, was the top destination for couples flying from three of China’s largest cities last week for China’s version of Valentine’s Day, according to...
Covid mRNA Vaccines Safe For Pregnant People, New Study Reinforces
Topline In a finding that provides more reassurance of the safety of Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines for pregnant people, a Canadian study found pregnant women—who are at higher risk for more severe c...
CDC Loosens Covid Guidelines—And Drops Quarantines After Exposure
Topline Unvaccinated Americans no longer need to quarantine after they’re exposed to the coronavirus, and schools don’t need to conduct routine Covid-19 testing, the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Covid Split U.S. Along Political Lines More Than Other Countries, Poll Finds
Topline The U.S. is one of the most divided countries when it comes to attitudes about the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center poll published Thursday, underscoring the political...
Everything The Markets Have Wrong About GameStop (and One Thing They Have Right)
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 16: People pass a GameStop store in lower Manhattan on September 16, … [+] 2019 in New York City. GameStop has announced that they will be closing between 18...
U.S. Repeating Covid-19 Pandemic Mistakes
In the latest episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” John Oliver scored the … [+] U.S. response to the monkeypox outbreak a “no” on a scale of one to 100 (Photo by Rich Fu...
NVAX Stock Plummets As Covid Vaccine Sales Lag; Novavax Slashes Guidance
Novavax (NVAX) slashed its 2022 outlook late Monday, citing “evolving market dynamics” facing its Covid vaccine. NVAX stock crashed. X The decision followed a major second-quarter disappoi...
China’s trade with Africa gets boost from rising commodity prices despite impact of Covid controls
Trade between China and Africa grew by 16.6 per cent to US$137.4 billion in the first half of this year, boosted by a recovery in commodity prices, especially oil. China imported goods worth US$60.6 b...
Ajisen Joins Yum China With Weak Results Amid Lockdowns
Pedestrians walk past a Japan-based fast food restaurants chain Ajisen Ramen restaurant in Shanghai … [+] in 2019. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightR...
Biden Tests Negative For Covid For First Time In A Week
Topline President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 Saturday morning, according to the White House physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, but he will remain in isolation until he gets a second consecutiv...
You’ll ‘get into trouble’ if you’re not up to date on COVID vaccines and boosters — here are 3 stocks that could get a shot in the arm
Dr. Fauci: You’ll ‘get into trouble’ if you’re not up to date on COVID vaccines and boosters — here are 3 stocks that could get a shot in the arm With summer travel season under full swing, the COVID-...
Rapid Covid Test Still Positive After 5 Days? You May Not Be Contagious, Study Suggests
Topline Some 50% of people who test positive for Covid-19 on a rapid test after five days of infection are likely no longer contagious, a Journal of the American Medical Association study released on ...
Moderna Stock Jumps After Covid Vaccine Obliterates Sales Expectations
Moderna (MRNA) obliterated Covid vaccine sales forecasts on Wednesday and reported better-than-expected quarterly profit, leading Moderna stock to surge. X The company retained its full-year outlook f...