Tag: Health care industry
FDA staff declines to take stance, citing unverified data
A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a mobile inoculation site in the Bronx, New York [...]
Pfizer releases new data showing side effects are similar to second dose
A healthcare worker administers a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a senior living facility in Worcester, Pennsylvania, U.S., [...]
Rap artist Nicki Minaj faces backlash after tweeting inaccurate information about Covid vaccines
Nicki Minaj is seen arriving to the 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019 in New York C [...]
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine data for kids under age 5 may come in late October, CEO says
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factor [...]
Giving Covid booster shots to healthy people is ‘not right,’ WHO says
Nurse Mary Ezzat administers a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot to Jessica M. at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA, on Thursday, August 19, 2021.Jeff Gr [...]
Many workers are facing compulsory Covid vaccination or no job
Firefighter paramedic Cuevas (R) administers a Covid-19 vaccination dose to a person at a vaccination event at Culver City Fire Department Station [...]
Gates Foundation annual report says 31 million pushed into dire poverty, child vaccine rates fell
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has pushed an additional 31 million people worldwide into dire poverty, reversing global progress on eliminating pove [...]
U.S. Covid cases dip from latest peak, but delta still rising in some states
A CSULB student receives a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health Covid-19 mobile vaccination clinic a [...]
China’s zero-Covid stance could worsen debt problems for companies
People queue to undergo nucleic acid testing for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the city of Ruili which borders Myanmar, in China's southwestern Yunna [...]
Fauci outlines the case for offering Covid shots to young people
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [...]
Covering 9/11 showed journalist how to handle Covid pandemic, misinformation
Like many Americans, I remember every detail of Sept. 11, 2001, like it was yesterday.I was a congressional reporter in Washington, D.C., for Dow J [...]
The lessons for investors from the trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes
Sometimes an investment is too good to be true.As Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, goes on trial over allegations of defraudin [...]
CNBC poll shows very little will persuade unvaccinated Americans to get Covid shots
Americans who are unvaccinated against Covid-19 are largely driven by a mistrust of the government and fears over vaccine side effects, and there i [...]
FDA says ‘working around the clock’ to support approvals for kids under 12
12-year-old Justing Concepcion receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from registered nurse Angela N [...]
Why are Covid cases so high when vaccination is widespread?
Kyndal Bolden, 15, holds the hand of her aunt as she receives a COVID-19 vaccination dose on August 14, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana.Mario Tama | [...]