Covid

The director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, holds up a CDC document that reads "COVID-19 Vaccination Program Interim Playbook for Jurisdiction Operations" while speaking during a Senate Subcommittee…

A normally busy main street in Livingston, Montana after Governor Steve Bullock ordered restaurants, bars and theaters to close on March 20, 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.William Campbell | Corbis via Getty ImagesAs…

A health care worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services in the ultra-Orthodox Israeli city of Bnei Brak on January 6, 2021.JACK GUEZ | AFP | Getty ImagesIsrael was praised for deploying what is currently the fastest…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb emphasized the importance of getting as many people as possible vaccinated and warned of a potentially bad spring and summer without protective immunity, as new variants of Covid are emerging worldwide. "If we can't…

Brendan McDermid | ReutersLONDON - A digital Covid vaccination record is being jointly developed by a group of health and technology companies who believe governments, airlines and other companies will soon be asking people to prove they…

In early January, Nali Gillespie watched her social media feed fill with vaccine selfies: photo after photo of peers at other medical schools across the country proudly posing next to a syringe with their dose of either Moderna or Pfizer…

Seema Verma, Administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on April 29, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSeema Verma has never…

A woman can be seen in Kuala Lumpur with a Malaysia flag as a background.SOPA pictures | GettySINGAPORE - Several economists have cut their growth forecasts for Malaysia for 2021 after the country announced stricter measures to contain a…

When a handful of new coronavirus cases emerged in a province around Beijing earlier this month - apparently spread at a wedding reception in the village - the Chinese authorities took action.They locked down two cities with more than 17…

Dave Ricks, chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly, told CNBC on Tuesday that he expected the company's Covid-19 antibody drug to be effective against the variant of coronavirus found in the UKHowever, he said the exposure observed in South Africa…