Healthcare workers administer free Covid-19 tests to people in their cars in the parking lot of the Columbus West Family Health and Wellness Center in Columbus, Ohio on November 19, 2020. Stephen Zenner | AFP | Getty Images Researchers in Ohio said Wednesday that they’ve discovered two new variants of the coronavirus that likely originated
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Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman | Getty Images The CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna warned Wednesday that the coronavirus that has brought world economies to a standstill and overwhelmed hospitals will be around “forever.” Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity reaches space for the first time. Source: Virgin Galactic Ark Invest, which operates the largest actively managed exchange-traded fund, plans to add a “Space Exploration ETF” under the ticker ARKX, according to a securities filing on Wednesday. While the ETF’s constituents have yet to be announced, shares of space companies Virgin
A person walks at Reagan National Airport ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Arlington, U.S. November 25, 2020. Hannah McKay | Reuters Airlines and airports are stepping up security ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week. The measures come in the wake of last week’s violent pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol, an FBI
Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus vaccine illustration Dado Ruvic | Reuters Johnson & Johnson‘s one-dose coronavirus vaccine is safe and appears to generate a promising immune response in both young and elderly volunteers, according to trial data published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. J&J scientists randomly assigned healthy adults between the ages of
A person walks into the Nordstrom store open for business as New York City moves into Phase 2 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on June 29, 2020 in New York, New York. Rob Kim | Getty Images Nordstrom on Wednesday reported a sales decline of 22% for the nine-week period
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Seema Verma never considered resigning from her job running the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs in the wake of last week’s deadly assault
CNBC’s Jim Cramer pounded the table on one of his favorite semiconductor companies after shares dipped on news of a leadership change at one of its top rivals, Intel. Shares of Advanced Micro Devices dropped almost 4% after Intel announced that it will replace its chief executive in a month. Intel stock rallied 7% as
Pet ownership rates rose during the coronavirus pandemic, creating a strong growth driver for the animal industry overall, Zoetis CEO Kristin Peck told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. As Americans began spending more time at home last year, pet adoptions rose 15% year over year accompanied by additional spending on food and supplies, she said.
The restaurant industry spent most of 2020 trying to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, but the final month of the year saw weak sales worsen. In December, transactions at U.S. restaurant chains fell 10% compared with the same time a year ago, according to the NPD Group. The firm tracks transactions at 75 restaurant chains,
Cruise Automation COO Dan Kan (l to r), Cruise Automation CEO Kyle Vogt and General Motors President Dan Ammann Tuesday, November, 20, 2018 at Cruise Automation offices in San Francisco, California. Source: Noah Berger | General Motors The co-founder and president of Cruise, General Motors’ majority-owned autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is predicting a consolidation/collapse of the
Moviegoers wear face masks in a screening hall at a cinema almost six months after its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic on July 24, 2020 in Beijing, China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images In a year marred by a deadly global pandemic, Japan’s box office set a new record.
A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway near other patients in the overloaded Emergency Room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Nearly 3,000 people in the U.S. are dying every day,
Store signs from CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens stores. Getty Images CVS Health, Walgreens and Rite Aid are getting ready to administer Covid vaccinations in the months ahead, and this effort will give the three largest drugstore chains a chance to show off the work that’s been underway to revamp their businesses and respond to
For the first time since the pandemic started, Israel now says more than a quarter of its most serious Covid-19 cases, where hospitalization is required, are in patients under the age of 60. The Israeli Ministry of Health is placing the blame squarely on a new strain first discovered in the United Kingdom last month.
2021 Ford F-150 Limited Ford Look no further than the automotive industry’s best-selling vehicles of last year as proof of America’s love for pickup trucks. Led by trucks from the Detroit automakers, pickups accounted for five of the industry’s 10 best-selling vehicles in 2020 despite their increasingly higher prices and the coronavirus pandemic. Ford Motor’s
A flight attendant gathers trash on a flight aboard a Boeing 737 Max from Dallas Fort Worth Airport to Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 2, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters The head of the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday said travelers will face serious consequences for unruly behavior on aircraft, a stern warning that comes after several
2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Fiat Chrysler DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is expanding its popular Jeep Grand Cherokee lineup with a new three-row model, which the company believes will widen the vehicle’s appeal in an increasingly competitive SUV market. The Grand Cherokee L marks the fifth-generation of the SUV since its debut nearly 30 years
An ambulance crew waits with a patient outside the Coast Plaza Hospital emergency room during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in Los Angeles, California, December 26, 2020. David Swanson | Reuters The Covid-19 outbreak is so bad in Los Angeles County, ambulances have to wait hours to drop patients at emergency rooms. Hospital
Medical staff examine a patient suffering from coronavirus in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at United Memorial Medical Center on November 16, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura | Getty Images Texas public health officials announced on Thursday that they have identified the state’s first case of a new, more contagious variant of the