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...
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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...
Airlines cancel another 1,300 flights as omicron, severe weather continue to snarl travel
Travelers wait in line to check-in for flights at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Christopher Occhicone | Bloomberg | Getty Images Airl...
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...
Omicron variant in Maharashtra and Delhi
A health worker administers a dose of the Bharat Biotech Ltd. Covaxin vaccine at a Covid-19 vaccination center set up at the Delhi Municipal Corp. Public Health Center in the Daryagunj area of New Del...
Airline stocks surge despite thousands of holiday flight cancellations
Airline pilots walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December 27, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Airline investors shrugged off thousands of U.S. f...
5 things to know before the stock market opens Monday. Jan. 3
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. First trading day of 2022 looks to pick up where last year left off A trader on the floor of th...
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...
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...
Severe weather, omicron infections drive thousands more U.S. flight cancellations
Travelers push their luggage past baggage claim inside the United Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) during the holiday season as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Omicron v...