Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday said he believes the Food and Drug Administration will authorize the company’s Covid vaccine for children under 5 years old under a fast-track process that al...
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Bill Gates Thinks Covid Could Be The Last Pandemic—And He’s Written A Book On How To Make That Happen
Topline Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has written a book about how to prevent the next pandemic, the billionaire philanthropist announced in a blog post Tuesday, writing that he believes that coronav...
Johnson & Johnson plant pauses Covid vaccine production, report says
Syringes and a box of Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Paul Hennessy | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The only Johnson & Johnson facility currently making usable batches of the companyR...
Pfizer Triggers $28 Billion Stock Plunge After Warning Covid Vaccine Sales May Disappoint This Year
Topline Despite skyrocketing revenue from the sale of Covid-19 vaccines, shares of Pfizer plunged Tuesday morning after the pharmaceutical giant issued worse-than-expected revenue guidance for this ye...
Covid-19 Raises Risk Of Pregnancy Complications—Including Death Around Birth, Preterm Delivery And Postpartum Hemorrhage—Study Finds
Topline Pregnant people infected with Covid appear to be more likely to experience serious complications or die during pregnancy than those who aren’t infected with the coronavirus, according to new p...
IMAX Returns To Profit In China Amid Box Office Recovery
“You’d be a fool to underestimate the role of China – its 1.4 billion people, its increased … [+] demographics, its increased quality of film, its increased budgets, its increased box office,” I...
Arkansas’ Studio Theatre has a denied Covid relief grant overturned
The Studio Theatre in Little Rock, AR Jennifer Schlesinger | CNBC After months of limbo and mounting debts, the Studio Theatre in Little Rock, Arkansas, got some welcome news from the Small Business A...
Used Cars That Sell For More Than New Ones
The costly and capable Mercedes-Benz G-Class has the dubious distinction of costing more as a … [+] year-old used model than a brand-new one. Mercedes-Benz USA Perhaps with the exception of coll...
U.S. Covid Deaths Top 900,000 On Omicron Surge
Topline More than 900,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, a bleak milestone as the country continues to battle a surge of cases ...
Though rare, Moderna Covid vaccine recipients have higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer
Moderna’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is associated with a higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer’s, but the benefits of both companies’ shots outweigh the risks, according to a...
‘Jackass Forever’ Tops ‘Moonfall’ With $1.7 Million Thursday
Jackass Forever Paramount Paramount and MTV’s Jackass Forever earned a very promising $1.65 million in Thursday previews last night. That compares favorably with the last two installments, with the ca...
Moderna’s Covid vaccine for teens awaits OK as regulators review heart inflammation risk
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images For months, the authorization of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for teenagers has been o...
at-home testing, from Covid to cancer, worth $2 billion dollars
The at-home testing market is bigger than just Covid tests, and it’s bigger than over-the-counter pregnancy tests. In fact, the emerging marketplace of consumer-initiated lab testing may be wort...
Why do some people get Covid while others don’t?
A man with her protective face mask walks in Vellaces neighborhood after new restrictions came into force as Spain sees record daily coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, in Madrid, Spain on September 21, 202...
Airlines Push White House To Scrap Covid Test Mandate For Vaccinated International Travelers
Topline Lobbying group Airlines for America urged the White House on Wednesday to drop a rule requiring vaccinated passengers to test for Covid-19 ahead of U.S.-bound international flights, hoping to ...
Airlines ask Biden to drop Covid testing for vaccinated travelers before U.S.-bound flights
A traveler wears a face mask while checking their phone on the arrivals level outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid increased Covid-19 t...
U.S. Olympic Flag Bearer Out With Covid-19 As Tests Shows Virus Spreading In Beijing’s Olympic Bubble
Topline Four-time Olympian bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor is no longer able to lead the way for Team USA as a flag bearer at the opening ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics after testing positive...
Dr. Scott Gottlieb says it’s time to consider dumping school Covid mask mandates
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should adjust its Covid masking guidance to account for high immunity protection in America, specifically when it comes to schools, Dr. Scott Gottlieb to...
U.S. Lost 301,000 Private Jobs Amid January’s Omicron Surge—The Worst Monthly Showing Since 2020
Topline After a stronger-than-expected showing in December, private U.S. employers posted their worst monthly job growth in more than a year on Wednesday, according to payroll processor ADP, one of th...
Tsunami-Hit Tonga Goes Into Lockdown After After Foreign Aid Brings Covid-19
Topline Tonga entered lockdown on Wednesday after recording its first locally spread cases of Covid-19 among port workers and their families involved in distributing humanitarian aid in the wake of t...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
Leadership of China’s Xi threatened by Covid, real-estate crisis
George Soros, billionaire founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping&#...
Childhood Trauma Linked To Covid Vaccine Hesitancy, Lockdown Defiance, Study Says
Topline People who experienced childhood trauma are more likely to feel unfairly restricted by government anti-Covid measures, to reject Covid vaccination and to support ending masking and social dist...
Moderna Stock: Will FDA’s Covid Vaccine Approval Extend Sales?
Moderna stock jumped Monday after the Food and Drug Administration fully approved its Covid vaccine for all adults. X Previously, the vaccine was allowed under emergency use authorization. The full ap...
COVID protocols may limit test during Olympics
TL; DR Breakdown COVID protocols will limit test of digital yuan during Olympics Olympics attendants in quarantine $13 billion worth of digital yuan transactions recorded Over the last few years, Chin...
COVID restrictions stymie digital yuan rollout at Beijing Winter Olympics: Report
Though athletes and support staff arriving for the Beijing 2022 Olympics still have the option of using digital currency for payments at many venues, the international test run of China’s CBDC is repo...
Asian medical companies using blockchain to monitor COVID vaccines
Zuellig Pharma, a medical services company based in Asia, is integrating blockchain in its systems to monitor Covid-19 vaccines. The company has released a system known as eZTracker, a medical managem...
UK investigation into Downing Street Covid lockdown parties finds ‘failures of leadership’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to make a statement at Parliament on January 31, 2022 in London, England. Dan Kitwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — The interim find...
China’s Covid lockdown rules send prices higher
Freeman H. Shen, Founder, Chairman & CEO of WM Motor, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 2 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou on November 28, 2018 in Nansha, Guangzhou, Chi...