Covid Moderna (MRNA) Q1 earnings 2022
Moderna sold $5.9 billion of its Covid vaccine in the first quarter, blowing out revenue and profit expectations.The biotech company's shares soared by more than 7% in premarket trading Wednesday...
CVS Health (CVS) Q1 2022 earnings
A CVS Pharmacy store is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersCVS Health on Wednesday outpaced Wall Street's expectations for first-quarter earnings and...
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken tests positive for Covid
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 27, 2022, to review...
Covid’s toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths
A white flag with a memorial written on it is one of the thousands of white flags representing Americans who have died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) placed over 20...
New York City could bring back mask mandate, vaccine checks
Children are seen walking to school, on the first day of lifting the indoor mask mandate for DOE schools between K through 12, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York,...
Nearly 15 million deaths directly or indirectly linked to COVID-19 |
The figure represents 9.5 million more deaths than those reported so far, directly attributed to COVID-19. The new estimates are the result of close consultation with countries & regions, supported...
Record profits, while COVID treatment often ‘out of reach’ for the poor |
Despite weekly fatalities being at their lowest since March 2020, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists at the weekly briefing in Geneva that “these trends, while welcome, don’t tell...
Better prevention and targeting of root causes needed to combat food crises |
“Acute hunger is soaring to unprecedented levels and the global situation just keeps on getting worse,” said David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP). The annual report...
WHO warns of worsening obesity ‘epidemic’ in Europe |
Nearly two thirds of adults, 59 per cent, and almost one in three children – 29 per cent of boys and 27 per cent of girls - is either overweight...
First Person: A plea for the life-saving properties of vaccines |
Dr. Kate O’Brien, Immunization Director at the World Health Organization, devoted her life to immunization after working in a paediatric ward in Haiti, where she saw that a third of...