Far from killing retail, as initially feared, Covid-19 wound up being a boon for the industry. It’s the recovery that looks more perilous. The pandemic was a great time for retailers. Consumers were f...
Tag: Epidemics
Uninsured face testing, hospital bills after pandemic aid runs out
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss reopening schools during the coronavirus disease (...
Covid still a global health emergency even as deaths fall: WHO
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Heal...
Covid outbreaks in New York and D.C. infect senior officials as omicron BA.2 variant sweeps the U.S.
A man is given a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at pop-up testing site in New York, April 11, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Covid infections are rising again in the U.S. with outbreaks in New ...
WHO says it closely watching as China grapples with its worst Covid surge yet
Shanghai, home to the world’s largest container shipping port, began a two-part lockdown on March 28 and has yet to announce when restrictions will lift. Yang Jianzheng | Visual China Group | Ge...
China’s Nio halts EV production as COVID lockdowns disrupt its supply chain
Nio Inc., the China-based electric-vehicle maker, over the weekend warned of delivery delays after suspending production due to COVID-19 restrictions that have disrupted its supply chain. “There will ...
As food prices hit an all-time high, more Americans have abandoned online grocery shopping and returned to supermarket aisles
More Americans are browsing again — in grocery-store aisles rather than online. With U.S. states abandoning mask mandates in public places, and more retailers dropping requirements for masks — and the...
Alibaba Stock Hit by China Covid Outbreak. 4 Reasons to Hope for a Bounce.
Text size Alibaba stock faces headwinds from Covid-19 outbreaks in China. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images A renewed outbreak of Covid-19 in China has hurt the outlook for the e-commerce giant Alibaba ...
Over 100 attacks on health sites, transport vehicles, WHO says
A mother holds her newborn baby in the bomb shelter of a maternity hospital on March 02, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Valentyn Ogirenko | Reuters The World Health Organization on Thursday condemned Russia&#...
U.S. has until June to decide on new vaccines for this fall, FDA official says
A volunteer is injected with a vaccine as he participates in a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, September 24, 2020. Marco Bel...
CDC director says high immunity in U.S. population provides some protection against omicron BA.2
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday said there is enough immunity in the U.S. population to provide some protection against the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant, which could help stave of...
Biden administration to launch long Covid research plan
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) before receiving a second COVID-19 booster vaccination in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditor...
Senators reach $10 billion Covid funding deal for therapeutics, vaccines and testing
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and new emerging v...
More contagious omicron BA.2 is on track to displace others in U.S.
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Rory Doyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The more contagious ...
CEO of Robinhood rival shines fresh light on what retail investors are doing. Wall Street needs to pay attention.
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, a newish crowd of retail investors emerged, pouring extra cash into equity markets and steering Wall Street into places they never dreamed, such ...
FDA says Covid vaccines may need to be updated to ensure high level of effectiveness against virus
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Va...
Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult
Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...
Myocarditis risk higher after Covid infection than vaccination, CDC finds
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images People infected with Covid-19 face a higher risk of...
CDC will end Title 42 used to expel migrants during Covid
Pedestrians wait to cross into the U.S. at the San Ysidro Port of Entry border crossing bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Cesar Rodriguez | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Centers for...
Senators reach deal on $10 billion in Covid relief funding, Romney says
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) walks through the Senate Subway on his way to a security briefing for senators on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 30, 2022. Elizabeth...
Biden warns U.S. won’t have enough Covid vaccine shots without aid from Congress
U.S. President Joe Biden receives a second coranavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination after delivering remarks on COVID-19 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium ...
Biden speaks about U.S. fight against Covid
[The stream has ended.] President Joe Biden gave a speech Wednesday about the fight against Covid-19 in the U.S. The president’s remarks come a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
Top FDA official says fully vaccinated Americans may need more Covid shots this fall
Nathan Jacobs, of Boston gets his Covid Booster shot from Sassy Yogurtian at City Hall on December 9, 2021 in, in Boston, MA. Stuart Cahill | MediaNews Group | Getty Images People in the U.S. might ne...
More contagious omicron BA.2 Covid subvariant dominant in the U.S., CDC says
A woman takes a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a pop-up testing site in New York City, January 12, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The more contagious omicron subvariant, BA.2, is now the dom...
Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Face Shareholder Pressure to Broaden Covid-19 Vaccine Access
Socially conscious investors and global-health activists are turning to shareholders to press Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson to make more of their s...
Opinion: The economy is in much better shape than the headlines would tell you
Inflation is through the roof. There’s an oil crisis. A looming food crisis. You name it. War is raging in Europe. Russia’s president is starting to sound unhinged. And headlines are now linking him w...
Housing Crisis: Why 40-Year Mortgages Might Help Delinquent Borrowers
Text size Illustration by Laurent Duvoux About the author: Patrick Harker is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But many of the pande...