Topline The Supreme Court Monday denied an Air Force Reserve officer’s request for a preliminary injunction shielding him from punishment for refusing to follow the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate...
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Supreme Court Refuses To Hear NYC Vaccine Mandate Challenge From Teachers—Again
Topline New York City’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for public school employees will be allowed to stand, as the U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a challenge brought by four teachers who allege...
Covid Cases Rise In 32 States Amid New Virus Strain—But White House Says Vaccines Are ‘Holding Up’
Topline Covid-19 cases are rising in more than half of all states due to the new coronavirus subvariant, but White House Covid-19 advisor Dr. Ashish Jha said Sunday the vaccines are still “holding up”...
Reliance, India’s Largest Company, May Potentially Buy Walgreens’ British Drugstore Business
Reliance Industries is one of the world’s largest multinational conglomerates and is India’s largest private sector company. The industry giant has robust business units that span across multiple vert...
California Nixes Bill To Require Covid Vaccines In Schools
Topline A California lawmaker on Thursday withdrew from consideration a bill that would’ve required children in grades K-12 to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to attend California schools—the ...
Pfizer May Have Omicron-Optimized Covid Vaccine Ready By Fall, CEO Says
Topline Pfizer and BioNTech could finish work by the fall on a new version of its Covid-19 vaccine that can better protect against the omicron variant while still being effective against other known s...
Federal Vaccine Mandate On Hold? White House Reportedly Delays Enforcement
Topline The White House Thursday told agencies to delay enacting a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees shortly after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals removed a lower court’s injunction agai...
Appeals Court Restores Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
Topline The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday removed a lower court injunction that halted President Joe Biden’s nationwide Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, empowering the govern...
Activision workers walk out over lifting of vaccine mandate. It ‘came as a shock to everybody.’
Employees pass in front of the main entrance at Activision Blizzard in Irvine in July. The Irvine office and two other offices out of state will still require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-...
Judge Prevents Air Force From Penalizing Airmen Who Refused Vaccine
Topline A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked the Air Force from penalizing a group of service members who are seeking a religious exemption to otherwise mandatory Covid-19 vaccination, in the ...
No Increased Risk Of Birth Defects After Covid Vaccination During Pregnancy, Study Finds
Topline There is no increased risk of birth defects detectable by ultrasound for babies born to mothers vaccinated against Covid-19 while pregnant, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatric...
We Cannot ‘Boost Our Way Out’ Of The Covid Pandemic, Experts Warn
Topline U.S. officials greenlit second booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccines last week in an effort to bolster waning immunity ahead of a potential surge of cases driven by t...
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 ...
CDC Advises To Mix J&J Covid Vaccine With Pfizer Or Moderna Booster
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that people who have received two shots of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson and Janssen follow up with...
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...
Moderna Stock Plunges Despite ‘Vaccine Day’ Touting 31 New Shots And $21 Billion In Sales—Here’s Why
Topline Though Moderna hosted an investor seminar Thursday touting the firm’s growing vaccine pipeline and climbing sales, shares of the Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech firm plunged on Friday as ...
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on second Covid vaccine booster shots
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told CNBC on Thursday the drugmaker wanted to provide U.S. regulators “flexibility” in determining eligibility for a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Moderna submitte...
Moderna vaccine for young kids up to 44% effective against omicron
With her husband Stephen by her side Erin Shih hugs her children Avery 6, and Aidan, 11, after they got their second Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Friday...
Google’s Healthcare Data Platform, Care Studio, Is Partnering With One Of The Largest EHR Systems
Over the years, Google has proven to be a relentless force with regards to innovation. The company continues find new ways to provide value to billions of people worldwide. Its latest venture is lever...
WHO ‘Very Likely’ Won’t Approve Medicago’s Covid Vaccine Due To Tobacco Ties
Topline A plant-based Covid-19 vaccine developed by Canadian pharmaceutical firm Medicago “very likely won’t be accepted” for emergency use approval by the World Health Organization because Medicago i...
Rising Cases Could Lead to Faster Uptake of Covid-19 Vaccine
Rising Covid-19 cases in China have sent Shenzhen and other cities back into lockdown and there have also been newly confirmed cases in other countries/regions such as the UK, Australia and the EU. Th...
Vaccine inequity is economically self-defeating: WHO Foundation CEO
The CEO of the WHO Foundation has told CNBC that the global economy will lose “trillions of dollars” if more Covid-19 vaccines aren’t delivered worldwide. Anil Soni, who became the F...
Vaccine maker stocks rise as China battles worst Covid outbreak since 2020
Health workers dressed in protective clothing give nucleic acid tests to men at a mass testing site to prevent COVID-19 on March 14, 2022 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images Shares of the m...
Why Is United Bringing Back Unvaccinated Flight Attendants?
After nearly two years of worries over masks and vaccine requirements, United Airlines (UAL) – Get United Airlines Holdings, Inc. Report is doing a 180-degree turn and letting unvaccinated empl...
Oracle’s Latest Earnings Call Indicated Its Next Frontier: Healthcare
Famed technology and software giant Oracle took a bold step late last year when it announced its acquisition of Cerner, an electronic health records (EHR) company. This valiant purchase signaled a new...
Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Effective In Preventing Kids From Catching Omicron, Study Finds
Topline Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine reduced risk of infection by the omicron variant 31% among children 5-11 and 59% among children 12-15, according to a study of 1,364 children published Frida...
Pfizer planning to submit data on 4th Covid shot soon, while working on vaccine for all variants
Pfizer plans to submit data to the Food and Drug Administration for a fourth Covid shot soon, and it’s working on a vaccine that protects against all coronavirus variants, CEO Albert Bourla told...
Vaccine Stocks Pop; But Does Anyone Care Anymore?
Vaccine stocks popped Wednesday on hopes Pfizer (PFE) and BioNTech (BNTX) will ask U.S. regulators to sign off on a fourth dose of their Covid shot. X Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said Tuesday...