Topline As rising cases in Shanghai threaten further lockdowns in the region, experts are warning China’s pandemic crackdown measures this spring could be the latest headwind for the U.S. econom...
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CDC Panel Recommends Approving Third Pfizer Covid Shot For Children 5 To 11
Topline A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory board voted Thursday to recommend letting children ages 5 to 11 receive a third dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine shots, two days after...
Xiaomi Posts 1st Quarter Loss As Covid, Parts Shortage Hurt Smartphone Sales
A shopper walks past a Xiaomi store in Shanghai last year. Retail business this year has been hurt … [+] by Covid lockdowns. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Xiaomi...
It’s Time For Nascar To Re-imagine Its All-Star Race
CONCORD, NC – MAY 18: Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Fastenal Ford, and Kurt Busch, driver of the … [+] #78 Furniture Row/Sealy Chevrolet, the the field past the green flag to start the N...
U.S. Reports More Than 200,000 Covid Cases—Highest Level Since February
Topline The U.S. on Wednesday reported more than 200,000 Covid-19 cases for the first time since February, according to a tracker run by Johns Hopkins University, as multiple lineages of the highly in...
China Eases Covid Testing Requirements For U.S. Travelers, Shanghai Inches Towards Reopening
Topline Chinese authorities have eased Covid-19 testing requirements for travelers flying from the U.S. and a few other countries as China seeks to restore normalcy after its economy was hit by pandem...
Tony Award Nominations Boost Some Broadway Musicals, While Covid Scuttles Others
Jaquel Spivey and the Broadway cast of A STRANGE LOOP, which is nominated for 11 Tony Awards … [+] including Best Musical MARC J. FRANKLIN One week after the Tony Awards announced their nominees...
Taiwan New Covid Cases Hit Daily Record 85,310, Near U.S. Seven-Day Average
Shoppers look at jewelry at a stall in a shopping district in Taipei in April. Taiwan reported a … [+] record number of Covid cases yesterday. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomber...
Getting Vaccinated After Infection Could Slash Risk Of Long Covid, Study Finds
Topline Getting vaccinated after a coronavirus infection could slash the risk of developing long Covid, according to a new study published Wednesday in the British Medical Journal, a possible glimmer ...
Tencent Profit Plunges 51% Amid China Covid Surge, Revenue Flat
Signage for Tencent Holdings atop an entrance to an office building in Shanghai last month. … [+] Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP China Internet heavyweight Tencen...
North Korea Claims Covid Outbreak Is Taking A ‘Favorable Turn’ As WHO Frets About Lack Of Data
Topline North Korea on Wednesday claimed its Covid-19 outbreak was taking a “favorable turn” while still reporting more than 200,000 new suspected cases as the World Health Organization expressed conc...
Goldman Sachs cuts its China GDP forecast on Covid controls
Since March, mainland China has struggled to contain its worst Covid outbreak in two years. Notably, the metropolis of Shanghai, pictured here on May 18, only started this week to begin discussing res...
Hugh Bonneville Talks ‘Downton Abbey’ Sequel And ‘Paddington 3’
Hugh Bonneville poses for photographers upon arrival at the world premiere of ‘Downton Abbey: A New … [+] Era’ in London, England. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP Three years after the Downt...
Covid Cases Are Rising — But Cities So Far Aren’t Reimposing Mask Mandates
Topline Rising Covid-19 cases across the country so far aren’t resulting in local mask mandates coming back, as officials in multiple Democratic-leaning cities said in recent days they have no plans t...
Hyundai’s Inaugural Move Into Healthcare: Enabling Prescription Drug Delivery
Hyundai Motor Group is a world renowned automobile company, known for pushing the bounds of technology and innovation. The company has diversified into a variety of different service lines, including ...
Shanghai’s Strict 6-Week Lockdown Nears End As Covid Outbreak Eases
Topline Covid-19 cases in Shanghai continued to decline, prompting authorities on Monday to announce plans for a phased reopening of the city after it endured six weeks of stringent lockdowns that lef...
China’s Economy Contracts Sharply as Covid Zero Cuts Output
(Bloomberg) — China’s economy contracted in April, with Covid outbreaks and lockdowns dragging the industrial and consumer sectors down to the weakest levels since early 2020 as millions of resi...
Covid lockdowns weigh on retail, industrial production data
The persistent spread of Covid and resulting stay-home orders — primarily in Shanghai — forced factories to close or operate at limited capacity in April. Pictured here on May 12 is a refrigerator fac...
Taiwan Covid Cases Hit A Daily Record 68,732; Computex Tech Fair Affirms In-Person Return
People wear face masks to help protect against the spread of the coronavirus in Taipei on April 28. … [+] (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) ASSOCIATED PRESS Taiwan, home to many of the world’s largest...
‘Firestarter’ Flames Out With $4 Million
(from left) Andy (Zac Efron) and Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas. © 2022 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. All Rights Reserved. There was a single new wide release this weeken...
Rural, Smaller Hospitals Relied Heavily On Covid Relief To Survive, Study Suggests
Topline More than $170 billion in Covid-19 relief funds the federal government allotted to struggling hospitals during the pandemic helped healthcare facilities stay afloat by offsetting major financi...
Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Protection Against Omicron Fades Just Weeks After Second And Third Doses, Study Finds
Topline Immunity against the omicron coronavirus variant fades rapidly after a second and third dose of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to peer reviewed research published in JAMA Ne...
North Korea Reports First Covid Death Amid ‘Explosive’ Disease Outbreak
Topline North Korea confirmed its first Covid-19 death on Friday and said hundreds of thousands of people are sick with a rapidly spreading “fever,” according to state media, a day after the reclusive...
NIH licenses key Covid vaccine technology to WHO so other countries can develop shots
President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. has licensed a key technology used in the current Covid-19 vaccines to the World Health Organization, which would allow manufacturers around the world to ...
Why Would Anyone Invest In China Right Now?
Shanghai: in lockdown for over a month. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty … [+] Images) AFP via Getty Images You might not want to hold the Direxion 3x China Bear (YAN...
Tesla’s China Sales Take A Pounding As Covid Lockdown Drags On
A driver in PPE moves a new Tesla passenger car from Shanghai off a cargo ship in the port in Yantai in China’s Shandong province on April 25, 2022. Future Publishing via Getty Images Tesla’s El...
Moderna Covid Vaccine Safe And Effective In Kids Ages 6-11, Study Finds
Topline Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective at preventing Covid-19 in children aged six to 11, according to a peer reviewed study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on We...
Kyrie Irving’s Long-Term Nets Career In Doubt —GM Refuses To Commit, Hinting Covid Vaccine Refusal Is Possible Reason
Topline Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks would not say Wednesday if he hopes the team’s star point guard Kyrie Irving will be in Brooklyn long-term, showing frustration after Irving’s refusal ...