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FDA Approves First Covid Treatment For Children Under 12
Topline The Food and Drug Administration on Monday fully approved the Covid-19 antiviral remdesivir for children 28 days of age and older and weighing 6.6 pounds or more, in a bid to protect children ...
While Global Markets Get Spooked by Covid and a Hawkish Fed, Stocks and Crypto Rebound After Musk Buys Twitter – Finance Bitcoin News
Wall Street suffered Monday morning as the major U.S. stock indexes dropped further, building on losses gathered last week. Reports indicate that investors are concerned about the upcoming Federal Res...
Oil joins tumbling commodities as China COVID spread triggers fresh demand worries
Oil prices tumbled on Monday, amid fresh worries that spreading COVID cases and more lockdowns in China will hurt demand. That has added to concerns that Federal Reserve tightening could also weaken p...
China Begins Mass Testing Beijing’s Biggest District After Raising Alarm About Undetected Covid Spread
Topline Officials in Beijing will require the people who reside or work in Chaoyang—the city’s main business district—to undergo three Covid-19 tests this week starting on Monday, a move that comes af...
American Lawyer Quarantined For 37 Days In China Describes “Chaotic” Environment
James Zimmerman is a partner at Perkins Coie in Beijing. James Zimmerman American lawyer James Zimmerman, a partner at Perkins Coie in Beijing, has worked in China for 24 years, and thought he was wel...
China’s capital city Beijing begins Covid testing in business district
China’s capital city of Beijing reported a spike in Covid cases over the weekend and began mass testing Monday in the business district of Chaoyang. Within the district, one community that’...
Walgreens & Alphabet Launch Inaugural Drone Deliveries In DFW
Walgreens, one of the nation’s oldest and well-known pharmacy chains, has had an astounding last few years. In addition to providing numerous retail services to communities during the Covid-19 pandemi...
White House Advisor Calls For ‘Caution, But Not Overreacting’ As Covid Cases Jump 50%
Topline Daily U.S. Covid-19 cases have risen by over 50% in the last two weeks, but hospitalizations remain near pandemic lows, leading White House Covid-19 advisor Dr. Ashish Jha to encourage “care a...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Tumbles 67% As ‘Batman’ Suffers HBO Max Hit
Sonic (Ben Schwartz) in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 Photo Credit: Courtesy Paramount Pictures and Sega of America. In holdover news for the weekend, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 placed second with $15.225 million (-...
Taiwan Reports Covid Daily Record, Cases Nearly 10 Times Above Two Weeks Ago
People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus and pray outside of a temple … [+] in Taipei today. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) ASSOCIATED PRESS Taiwan, home to many of t...
Will The Fed Cause A Recession?
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 30: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a … [+] hearing before Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill Novem...
Anti-Covid Pill Coming To All U.S. Pharmacies Under Reported Biden Plan
Topline The Biden Administration is working on a plan to make Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid available across the U.S. following shortages of the lifesaving drug, Bloomberg reported Friday,...
Covid Was Third Leading Cause Of Death In U.S. Last Year
Topline In 2021, Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S., as the delta and omicron waves drove the pandemic’s death toll up by nearly a quarter over 2020, according to a provisional ...
Covid was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. last year
Covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in the U.S. last year, with only heart disease and cancer killing more people, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Stagflation Threat Is Latest Nail-Biter For Retailers
Stagflation Shutterstock To the list of recent retail industry headaches — COVID, the great resignation, supply chain disruptions, inflation, declining consumer sentiment — we can now add the looming ...
Singapore moves closer to pre Covid living, lifts most pandemic measures
Singapore is set to ease most Covid measures from April 26, authorities said. Lauryn Ishak | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore is set to remove nearly all virus safety measures from Tuesd...
Nearly 240,000 Covid-19 Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Vaccines, Study Finds
Topline Nearly 240,000 deaths resulting from Covid-19 since June 2021 could have been avoided with “timely” vaccinations, new research from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows, as the U.S. approaches a...
CDC panel skeptical of fourth Covid shots for broader population, says U.S. needs clear vaccine strategy
Registered Nurse Orlyn Grace (R) administers a COVID-19 booster vaccination to Diane Cowdrey (L) at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic on April 06, 2022 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty I...
Woman caught Covid twice in 20 days marking a new record
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a citizen for nucleic acid test at a testing site in Binhai New Area in north China’s Tianjin, Jan. 9, 2022. Zhao Zishuo | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Im...
Feds Charge 21 In Sweeping Covid Fraud Crackdown
Topline The Department of Justice announced charges Tuesday against 21 defendants accused of participating in pandemic fraud schemes ranging from making counterfeit vaccination cards to selling fake h...
Tesla Quarterly Profit Soars To $3.3 Billion As Supply Chain, Covid Woes Cloud Outlook
Tesla CEOElon Musk speaks at the opening of the electric carmaker’s Giga Texas plant on April 7, 2022 in Austin. AFP via Getty Images Tesla Inc., the world’s leading producer of electric vehicle...
Novavax says vaccine targeting Covid and flu shows promising results in early data
Novavax on Wednesday said its vaccine targeting both Covid-19 and the flu triggered an immune response similar to its stand-alone shots against each virus, in an early indication that a combination va...
Covid masks work even if others around you aren’t wearing one
People concerned about getting Covid can still protect themselves by properly wearing masks, like an N95 or KN95, even if nobody else around is, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Wednesday. GottliebR...
Shanghai Loosens Restrictions For Millions Of Residents After New Covid Cases Appear To Slow
Topline Shanghai on Wednesday eased Covid restrictions for an additional 4 million people and allowed more factories to resume operations as two districts in the city reported no new Covid-19 cases ou...
Shanghai’s Covid Lockdown Deals A Blow To Elon Musk’s Tesla Production Goals
Workers at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory build a Model 3 electric sedan. Newscom Tesla looks set for a year of dramatic growth amid spiking demand for its electric vehicles and the addition of tw...
Kaiser Permanente Is Investing $400 Million To Create More Affordable Housing
Kaiser Permanente is one of the country’s largest healthcare organizations, well known for its integrated care networks, advanced medical services, commitment to cutting-edge healthcare technology, an...
87% Of Kids Hospitalized With Covid During Omicron Wave Were Unvaccinated, CDC Says
Topline About 87% of children hospitalized with Covid-19 when the omicron variant was dominant were unvaccinated, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
The Covid Pandemic Will Leave Lasting Changes To The Retirement Facilities Industry
A woman squeezing the sample liquid on a test strip while carrying out a Covid-19 rapid self test at … [+] home. getty Retirement facilities municipal bonds have historically been the type of bo...
New Covid vaccine’s omicron results improve on current shots
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Giorgio Companies site in Blandon, PA where the CATE Mobile Vaccination Unit was onsite to administer Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines...