COVID-19
Biden administration to provide free Covid vaccines to uninsured Americans this fall through end of 2024
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday announced a program to provide free Covid vaccines to uninsured Americans through December 2024 after […]
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Biden administration asks Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax for ‘reasonable’ prices on updated Covid vaccines
A nurse prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 30, 2021, during a COVID-19 vaccination event at Josephine’s Southern Cooking in Chatham, Illinois. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The Biden administration on Thursday urged Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax to price their updated Covid vaccines at a “reasonable” rate when they […]
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China’s products and services activity softens as recovery falters, non-public study exhibits
China’s financial system probable recovered in the second quarter, in accordance to a private survey with more than 4600 respondents and conducted by China Beige Book between mid-April and mid-April 2023. Sopa Pictures | Lightrocket | Getty Visuals China’s services exercise expanded at the slowest tempo in 5 months in June, a personal-sector survey showed […]
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Japan business enterprise sentiment improves in next quarter, Lender of Japan’s tankan study displays
Tokyo Skytree (R) and Mount Fuji are witnessed from the I-backlink City observatory in Ichikawa city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo on July 2, 2023. Philip Fong | Afp | Getty Images Japanese business sentiment improved in the second quarter as uncooked content fees peaked and the elimination of pandemic curbs lifted manufacturing facility output and consumption, a […]
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Grab cuts 1,000 employment, its most significant spherical of layoffs considering that the pandemic
The headquarters of Grab Holdings Ltd., in Singapore. Grab Holdings Ltd., claimed its hottest earnings on Feb. 23, 2023. Bryan van der Beek | Bloomberg | Getty Visuals Singapore-based mostly Seize Holdings is reducing over 1,000 careers, its CEO claimed Tuesday, in a bid to take care of charges and reorganize the corporation in a […]
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Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax gear up for fall Covid vaccine rollout with an important head start
A pharmacist prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on September 09, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Covid strain selection for the next round of shots puts Pfizer, Moderna […]
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Biden to appoint Mandy Cohen to lead the CDC
Dr. Mandy Cohen speaks at a news conference at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 10, 2021. Bryan Anderson | AP President Joe Biden on Friday said he will appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cohen served as the head of North Carolina’s Department of […]
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FDA advisors raise doubts about seasonal updates to Covid vaccines as with flu shots
A person receives a COVID-19 vaccination dose, during a free distribution of COVID-19 rapid test kits for those who received vaccination shots or booster shots, at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s independent panel of advisors raised doubts about the […]
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FDA advisors recommend that new Covid vaccines target an omicron XBB variant this fall
A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination centre in Antwerp, Belgium, February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s independent panel of advisors on Thursday recommended that updated Covid shots for the fall and winter target one of the XBB variants, […]
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Covid vaccine maker Novavax sees a pathway to survival – but it won’t be easy
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 Novavax has a clear message for Wall Street: The cash-strapped Covid vaccine maker sees a pathway to survival. Maryland-based Novavax said as much last month […]
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