Health care industry
Shanghai residents question human cost of China’s Covid quarantines
The metropolis of Shanghai, where many foreign businesses are located, entered a two-part lockdown this week as municipal authorities sought to control an outbreak in China’s worst Covid wave in two years. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images Lu, 99, was a long-time resident at Shanghai’s Donghai Elderly Care hospital, her loved ones secure […]
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Covid outbreak in Shanghai has dogs on lockdown with their owners
A woman carries a dog past barriers along the near-empty Nanjing Road shopping street outside of the impacted areas during Covid a lockdown in Shanghai on March 31, 2022. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The citywide lockdown in Shanghai, the site of China’s worst coronavirus outbreak in two years, is so strict that even some dogs can’t […]
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5 things to know before the stock market opens Friday
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Stock futures lose steam as 10-year Treasury yield hits a three-year high Traders on the floor of the NYSE, April 7, 2022. Source: NYSE Wall Street was set for a mixed open Friday. U.S. stock futures lost […]
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‘Grim milestone’ reached in Ukraine with more than 100 attacks on health facilities and transportation, WHO says
A mother holds her newborn baby in the bomb shelter of a maternity hospital on March 02, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Valentyn Ogirenko | Reuters The World Health Organization on Thursday condemned Russia’s more than 100 attacks on health-care facilities and transport vehicles, including ambulances, in Ukraine over the last six weeks — in violation […]
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tests positive for Covid, is not experiencing symptoms
US President Joe Biden signs H.R. 3076, the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 6, 2022. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tested positive for Covid, but does not have […]
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U.S. has until June to decide whether we need new Covid shots for this fall, FDA official says
A volunteer is injected with a vaccine as he participates in a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, September 24, 2020. Marco Bello | Reuters The FDA has until the early summer to decide whether vaccine makers need to change existing Covid shots to target different virus […]
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5 things to know before the stock market opens Thursday
Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Wall Street looks steady after two days of Fed-driven selling Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, March 29, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures were relatively […]
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Guggenheim says Cathie Wood-favorite Teladoc can jump more than 40%
Investment firm Guggenheim initiated coverage of Teladoc with a buy rating. Source
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China’s smartphone market could plunge 20% as Covid cases spike — but Apple may see growth
China’s smartphone market could decline in the second quarter as the country experiences a resurgence of covid cases, analysts said. But Apple could fare quite well, the analysts said as it continues to attract users in the high-end of the market. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s recent surge in Covid cases […]
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Scientists divided on need for 4th Covid shot after FDA quietly approved another round of boosters
Cathy Dozal gets her second booster shot against COVID-19 from Vocational nursing student, Patricia Lizardo, at Long Beach City College in Long Beach on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Brittany Murray | Medianews Group | Getty Images Leading U.S. scientists and physicians worry that the FDA and CDC are moving too fast in approving a fourth […]
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