Topline In 2021, deaths exceeded births in 55.5% of metro areas and in a record 73% of counties, with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating long-running trends of aging populations and falling fertili...
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Singapore to ease Covid measures; drops outdoor mask mandate
Office workers walk out for lunch break at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on January 4, 2022. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore will ease most of its Cov...
Hillary Clinton Tested Positive For Covid But Is ‘Feeling Fine’
Topline Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has tested positive for Covid-19, she tweeted Tuesday, adding that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had...
Bipartisan Governors Urge White House To Spend More As Covid Response Funds Dry Up
Topline The National Governors Association urged Congress and the Biden Administration to extend Covid-19 response funding on Tuesday, just hours before the federal government is set to stop reimbursi...
Do You Need A Second Covid Booster Shot? Experts Are Divided.
Topline Amid evidence of waning immunity and new Covid surges across Europe and Asia, a growing number of countries have started rolling out fourth doses of coronavirus vaccines—or are debating doing ...
FDA advisory committee to discuss future of Covid boosters
A nurses fills up syringes for patients as they receive their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination during a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination clinic in Southfield, Michigan, September 29, 2021...
Covid’s return will affect Tesla
Over the past two weeks, China has seen a resurgence of Covid 19 infections. This is causing problems for the car industry, particularly Tesla. The return of Covid The pandemic seemed to have recede...
China sticks to zero Covid, managing outbreak one local city at a time
A worker wearing personal protective equipment disinfects a truck entering JD.com’s logistics park in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING ...
Dan Croll And Luke Sital-Singh. Two British Songwriters Move To Los Angeles, Sing About California And Please The Crowd
Luke Sital-Singh Andrew Paynter It seems like the setup for a joke. Two unrelated ex-pats from the UK move to Los Angeles. Both are singer-songwriters. One writes happier songs, the other tends toward...
Google’s Healthcare Data Platform, Care Studio, Is Partnering With One Of The Largest EHR Systems
Over the years, Google has proven to be a relentless force with regards to innovation. The company continues find new ways to provide value to billions of people worldwide. Its latest venture is lever...
Health experts predict uptick in U.S. Covid cases due to new BA.2 variant
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID, responds to questions from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on...
Stocks shrug off the war and COVID spikes to have their best week since November 2020. Here’s what experts say is going on
U.S. stocks rallied for the fourth straight day on Friday despite the ongoing economic effects of the Ukraine war, a new COVID-19 variant in Israel, and surging COVID cases in Europe. The S&P 500,...
Inside The Movement To Build A National Covid Memorial
A scalable memorial proposed by Marked by Covid—seen in a prototype here—would allow visitors to virtually view a helix of Covid-19 victims’ photographs using augmented reality technology. Marcos Luty...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics
Athletes and support staff at the Beijing Olympics have the option of using digital currency for payments Limiting the number of spectators may result in fewer people testing the digital yuan as a met...
UK Covid cases are back on the rise as travel restrictions dropped
Shoppers walking along Oxford Street in London on Dec. 21, 2021. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Cases of Covid-19 are rising once again in the U.K., according to the latest figures from the...
Shredding The Pandemic: The Covid Fender Boom
Lockdowns not only turbo-charged the growth of digital businesses like Zoom and Netflix – they also gave a jolt to the world’s largest electric guitar maker. The factory floor is humming as mast...
Meghan Markle Announces First Podcast Series On Spotify After ‘Ongoing Conversations’ Over Covid Misinformation
Topline Meghan Markle will launch a previously discussed podcast series on Spotify this summer after her and Prince Harry’s podcast production company, Archewell Audio, held talks with Spotify about r...
Biden taps Dr. Ashish Jha as Covid response head, succeeds Jeff Zients
Dr. Ashish Jha is pictured in Providence, RI on Dec. 3, 2020. Jonathan Wiggs | Boston Globe | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday named Dr. Ashish Jha as his new Covid-19 response coordinator...
Data Suggests A New Covid Wave Is Spreading In Europe — Here’s Why The U.S. Should Pay Attention
Topline The number of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are approaching or surpassing record highs across Europe just weeks after countries lifted pandemic restrictions and outlined plans to...
Oil Market Rollercoaster Continues To Cause Economic Pain
WASHINGTON, DC: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a White House daily news … [+] briefing at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo...
WHO ‘Very Likely’ Won’t Approve Medicago’s Covid Vaccine Due To Tobacco Ties
Topline A plant-based Covid-19 vaccine developed by Canadian pharmaceutical firm Medicago “very likely won’t be accepted” for emergency use approval by the World Health Organization because Medicago i...
Is omicron subvariant BA.2 to blame for rising Covid cases?
A doctor monitors a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021. RONNY HARTMANN | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Covid cases are rising in ...
China Faces Its Largest Covid Outbreak In Two Years As Daily Cases Double To 3,500
Topline China is facing its worst outbreak of Covid-19 cases since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan, with the country on Tuesday reporting more than 3,500 new local cases as experts attribute t...
China’s Covid outbreak to disrupt tech supply chains, says Marvell CEO
The latest round of coronavirus restrictions in major Chinese cities will likely add to supply chain challenges in the technology sector, the CEO of a semiconductor company told CNBC’s Jim Crame...
Vaccine maker stocks rise as China battles worst Covid outbreak since 2020
Health workers dressed in protective clothing give nucleic acid tests to men at a mass testing site to prevent COVID-19 on March 14, 2022 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images Shares of the m...
Opinion: Top investors dump stocks — why that might mean you should buy
Well, here’s some cheerful news for all of us with a retirement portfolio: The geniuses running the world’s biggest investment funds have panicked and have bailed out of the market. If that’s not a go...