Topline Private U.S. employers posted the strongest job growth in seven months in December, according to payroll processor ADP, but experts caution the promising data shouldn’t be cause for cele...
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Drugstores struggle to keep Covid at-home tests in stock as omicron rages across U.S.
Health workers distribute free rapid at-home Covid-19 test kits at a vaccine clinic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S, on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Hannah Beier | Bloomberg | Getty Images George Panagio...
Djokovic’s Australian Entry Denied Amid Growing Backlash Over Covid Vaccination Waiver
Topline Novak Djokovic, men’s tennis No.1 player, was waiting to enter Australia to compete in the Australian Open as of Wednesday morning, after being denied a visa by the Victorian state government ...
‘Flurona’ Cases Raise Concerns Of Severe Double-Infections
Topline Israel reported a rare case of simultaneous infection with Covid-19 and flu Thursday, raising concerns that seasonal flu outbreaks could leave large swathes of the public vulnerable to severe ...
Djokovic Didn’t Get ‘Special Treatment’ For Covid Vaccine Exemption, Australian Open Director Says
Topline Novak Djokovic, the world No. 1 in men’s tennis, was not given “special treatment” when he successfully applied for a medical exemption to the Australian Open’s Covid-19 vaccine requirement, b...
CDC adds testing guidance to shortened Covid isolation recommendation after facing criticism
People wait in line for COVID-19 testing at Kedren Community Health Center on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. Gary Coronado | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The U.S. Centers for Disease...
Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record
At the Covid testing site on Broadway in Santa Monica, the wait was at least 45 minutes long even with an appointment on Monday, Jan. 3, 2021. Carolyn Cole | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The omicr...
Pfizer Stock Topples Despite New CDC Guidance For Covid Boosters
Pfizer stock continued a two-day dive Tuesday even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shortened the window for its Covid booster to five months. X The CDC decision impacts all recipi...
Macy’s cuts store hours at all of its stores as Covid cases spike
Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square in New York, Dec. 23, 2021. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Macy’s is shortening store hours for the rest of the month as coronavirus cases spike in the United Sta...
Between COVID and Environmental Issues, Bitcoin Continues to Sink
The price of bitcoin has fallen from around $51,000 to just over $47,000 at the time of writing, and several other forms of crypto are also feeling the heat. Ethereum, for example, has risen about 400...
Biden doubles U.S. order of Pfizer Covid treatment pills, speeds delivery as omicron rages
A Pfizer employee checks the boxes containing Paxlovid, COVID-19 treatment pills, at a distribution facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in this undated handout picture. Pfizer | Reuters President Joe Bide...
CDC shortens waiting period for Pfizer Covid boosters to 5 months
UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 4: Hattie Pierce, 75, receives a Pfizer covid-19 vaccine booster shot from Dr. Tiffany Taliaferro at the Safeway on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Monday, October 4...
U.S. counts over 1 million new daily Covid cases in global record
US Army Critical Care Nurse, Captain Edward Rauch Jr. (L), turns a Covid-19 patient on a ventilator at Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan on December, 17, 2021. Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty Images...
Australia Faces Deluge Of Omicron Cases And Hospitalizations As It Sticks To ‘Living With Covid’ Strategy
Topline Australia reported a record 47,816 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday as the highly infectious omicron variant continued to spread rapidly, putting a massive strain on the country’s testing regime ...
Judge Rules In Favor Of Navy SEALs Seeking Religious Exemptions From Covid Vaccine
Topline A federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled in favor of 35 U.S. Navy SEALs who sued the Biden Administration over the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, marking the first major successful chall...
Why Sony Pushed Jared Leto’s ‘Morbius’ To April 1
Jared Leto in ‘Morbius’ Sony It is approaching two year anniversary of the first Morbius trailer, with the teaser dropping on the morning of January 13, 2020. The film was slated for July ...
Stocks Rally To Start 2022 As Investors Bet On Economic Recovery
Topline The stock market started off the new year on a high note Monday, rising slightly as investors bet the U.S. economic recovery will continue despite a surge in Covid cases over the holiday seaso...
Planet Fitness gym visits holding up against Covid omicron variant
Planet Fitness is seeing gym visits and membership growth hold up against the Covid omicron variant, according to the chain’s chief executive officer, Chris Rondeau. “Before there was a va...
International Vaccine Institute on Covid vaccinations
A COVID-19 vaccination card holder is handed out at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on December 21, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images If 2...
Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Reports Breakthrough Covid Infection, Has Mild Symptoms
Topline U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sunday said he has tested positive for Covid-19, a development that comes just days after the Pentagon moved to tighten restrictions as the highly infect...
Covid-19 Spread In China Hits Nike, Adidas Supplier; Billionaire Chairman’s Fortune Shrinks
Supply chain disruptions have challenged global suppliers and their customers during the Covid … [+] pandemic. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Shenzhou Inte...
U.S. is considering recommending that individuals exposed to Covid end isolation if they’ve tested negative for the virus after five days, Dr. Fauci says
Dr. Anthony Fauci takes part in a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and other members of the White House COVID-19 Response Team on developments related to the Omic...
Amid another Covid surge, schools and businesses find plans disrupted
A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 PCR test at a free test site in Farragut Square on December 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A Covid-19 outbreak on a cruise in Lis...