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Pfizer Paxlovid prescriptions to treat Covid increased tenfold in U.S.
Pfizer on Tuesday said prescriptions for its oral antiviral to treat Covid-19 have increased nearly tenfold in the U.S. since late February, as more pharmacies and other locations receive supply. CEO ...
Covid Pfizer (PFE) earnings Q1 2022
Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer pharmaceutical company, arrives to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Pfizer on Tuesday slashed its 2022...
Beijing city bans in-restaurant dining as China’s Covid controls tighten
As part of the latest Covid controls, China’s capital city of Beijing banned in-store dining as a five-day holiday kicked off, prompting restaurants to sell food outside. Kevin Frayer | Getty Im...
Medical professionals are skeptical on a fourth Covid vaccine dose
There hasn’t been enough research on how much protection a fourth dose can offer, medical professionals told CNBC. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Countries are beginning to offer a fourth dose o...
CDC says adenovirus may contribute to liver injury in healthy children
Adenovirus structure, computer illustration showing the surface structure of the virus’ outer protein coat (capsid). Kateryna Kon | Science Photo Library | Science Photo Library | Getty Images N...
FDA panel to discuss Novavax Covid vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna kids shots
Medical syringes and Novavax logo displayed in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 2, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images The Food and Dru...
The market just posted an unhealthy AOL-Time Warner bubble comparison
A Teladoc rolling telehealth cart that allows physicians to meet with their patients remotely, on October 8, 2021. Newsday Llc | Newsday | Getty Images This week’s earnings details have included...
China sticks to Covid controls, Beijing luxury mall closes
Major luxury goods mall Beijing SKP, pictured here in 2021, said Friday it would close — with no reopening date specified — after the city confirmed three Covid cases in an apartment community nearby....
How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis
In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. In 2013, the idea of an app for mental health-care may have seemed novel, if not monume...
Hepatitis outbreak in kids may be linked to adenovirus, WHO says
An outbreak of severe hepatitis in healthy children that has caused liver failure in some kids might be linked to adenovirus infection, and not hepatitis as originally suspected, though further invest...
Merck (MRK) earnings Q1 2022
Medicine pill is seen with Merck logo and words ‘Molnupiravir’ and ‘COVID-19’ displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Poland on November 5, ...
Symptoms of mysterious liver disease affecting children, Covid links
Health experts are investigating the likely cause of a new children’s liver disease, which was first reported in the U.K. in January 2022, and whether it bears any connection to the coronavirus....
Weekly Covid deaths have dropped to lowest since March 2020, WHO says
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said weekly new Covid deaths have fallen to the lowest level since March 2020, but warned a global decline in testing for the virus could hinder its efforts to...
At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous Covid infection, CDC says
Blood drawn by a registered nurse for an antibody test for the coronavirus, June 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images Three out of every five people in the U.S. now have antibodies f...
Scientists shed new light on how early stage breast cancer spreads to other organs
A consultant analyzing a mammogram. Rui Vieira | PA Wire | Getty Images Scientists have shed new light on how early stage breast cancer spreads to other organs undetected, which can cause fatal metast...
U.S. universities reinstate mask mandates
Masked to protect against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), senior Lauren Pyjar takes advantage of the warm sunshine to study outdoors at Georgetown University in Washington, March 9, 2021. Kevin La...
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’...
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...
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...
Biden announces massive new aid package for Ukraine
[The stream is slated to start at 9:45 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Joe Biden will announce a new military aid package to Ukraine, which i...
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...
CDC asks Justice Department to appeal ruling that lifted travel mask mandate
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS | DigitalVision | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that it requested the Justice Department to proceed with an appea...