Growth slowdown to spark 10% stock plunge, Morgan Stanley warns

Investors may be playing with fire. According to Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, the S&P 500 is vulnerable to a 10% plunge despite Monday’s late buying binge. He warns investors are dang...

How to get free at-home Covid tests with your health insurance

luza studios | E+ | Getty Images Private health insurers are rolling their procedures for people to get their at-home Covid tests at little to no charge. The Biden administration announced the policy ...

Unvaccinated Sarah Palin positive for Covid before NY Times defamation trial

Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks while campaigning for U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at the Historic Union Station Train Shed in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., September 21, 2...

5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday, Jan. 24

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street to open lower after Nasdaq’s worst week since March 2020 Traders on the floor...

China zero-Covid lockdowns, CNY holiday impact supply chains, ports

Streets in Tianjin, China, empty out on Jan. 10, 2022, as the city enters partial lockdown following a spike in omicron cases. Geno Hou | Future Publishing | Getty Images Covid lockdowns, quarantines ...

Why Moderna, Pfizer and the NIH debate who owns the Covid vaccine

It’s been well over a year since a landmark proposal brought the issue of patent waiver for the mRNA Covid vaccine to the spotlight. But many observers don’t see that waiving the intellect...

Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined

People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images A 35-year-old man returned to the U.S. from Wuhan, China on Jan....

Judge blocks mandate for federal workers

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images A U.S. judge in Texas on Friday b...

Kids under 5 can’t get Covid vaccines. Doctors explain how to protect them during omicron

Students in the 5 day pre-K class at Immanuel Unite Church of Christ line up to go outside after helping to sort donated food items. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Covid hospitalizations a...

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents

A respiratory therapist checks on Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is on a ventilator, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Lo...

Singapore will extend Covid booster program to teens aged 12 to 17

Students in protective masks engage in extracurricular activity in school on Jan. 6, 2022 in Singapore. Suhaimi Abdullah | NurPhoto | Getty Images Separately, Singapore shortened the isolation period ...

Covid has strained couples, families

A couple wearing face masks cry for a Covid-19 victim in Argentina. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic has taken an immense emotional toll on humankind, with people around ...

Supreme Court denies bid to send case back to federal judge

Pro-choice demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Thursday denied a request from Texas abortion pro...

GOP and Democratic governors reinstate Covid emergency orders to fight omicron surge

Ambulances outside University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, on Jan. 7, 2022. Karl Merton | Tribune News Service | Getty Images As Covid-19 cases surge across the nation, R...

Bill Gates, John Kerry call for ‘urgent’ private sector climate action

Bill Gates speaks during the Global Investment Summit at the Science Museum on October 19, 2021 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images Bill Gates has stressed the urgent need...

Antibiotic-resistant infections are killing millions, scientists say in Lancet study

MRSA bacteria DTKUTOO | Getty Images Drug-resistant bacteria killed almost 1.3 million people in 2019, scientists have estimated — more than either HIV or malaria. Researchers also estimated that anti...

Students allowed despite Covid policies

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border poli...

Fauci says FDA could authorize Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for kids under 5 in the next month

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 1, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters White House chief medical advisor Dr...

Starbucks won’t require vaccination or weekly testing after court ruling

People wear protective face masks outside Starbucks in Union Square in New York. Noam Galai | Getty Images Starbucks has suspended its plan to require baristas to get vaccinated or receive weekly test...

England looks to ease Covid rules while Europe is engulfed by omicron

Senior doctor Thomas Marx puts on his personal protective gear before he enters the room of a patient with Covid-19 in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Freising, southern Germany. LENNART PREIS...

Biden will make 400 million N95 masks available to Americans for free

Workers produce N95 respirators at Protective Health Gear (PHG) in Paterson, New Jersey, U.S., January 14, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters President Joe Biden will make 400 million highly protective ...

Obamacare enrollment hits record high after Biden makes changes

What a difference a new president makes. Enrollment in Obamacare health insurance plans has hit a record high this season, a clear, if rare, policy victory for President Joe Biden in his first full ye...

We have a chance to end Covid emergency in 2022, WHO official says

Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Feb. 6, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Covid-19 will never be eradicated, but society...

Obamacare enrollment hits record high under

What a difference a new president makes. Enrollment in Obamacare health insurance plans has hit a record high this season, a clear, if rare, policy victory for President Joe Biden in his first full ye...

Some Americans blocked from ordering Biden’s free Covid tests in early website launch

Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are seen in this illustration taken January 11, 2...

WHO says omicron won’t be last Covid variant as global cases surge by 20% in a week

Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme attends a news conference on the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Geneva, Switze...

WHO says there’s no evidence healthy children, adolescents need Covid boosters

World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan attends a press conference organised by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, c...

NYC Mayor says city is winning the war against omicron as cases dip

Mayor Eric Adams makes an announcement and holds media availability at Elmhurst hospital. Mayor announced three-point plan to support hospitals as Omicron variant cases of COVID-19 continue to surge. ...

Covid could be turning kids into ‘fussy eaters’ due to loss of smell

A child wears a KN95 protective mask for kids arranged in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Children who have recovered fr...

Omicron wave shows early signs of easing in states hit early

A woman is getting a Covid-19 test at a drive through Covid-19 testing center as hundreds of cars and pedestrians line up to get Covid-19 test before Christmas holiday season in North Bergen of New Je...

It’s an ‘open question’ whether omicron spells Covid endgame

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...

Thailand’s Baiya Phytopharm working on plant-based Covid vaccine

Thailand’s Baiya Phytopharm wants to develop the country’s first plant-based Covid vaccine. The start-up, founded by Dr. Suthira Taychakhoonavudh and Dr. Waranyoo Phoolcharoen in 2018, has...