By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O’Donnell Dec 23 (Reuters) – Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt. As of Wednesday morning, only 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had been given, about one-third of the first shipment sent last week. Over 9.5 million doses of vaccines, including Moderna’s, have now been sent… Source link

Despite the near-constant upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 will go down as one of the best performing years for initial public offerings (IPOs). Over the last 12 months, a stunning 216 companies went public, the most since 2014, with firms raising an astonishing $78.1 billion in the process. Consistent with previous years, healthcare and technology were the most popular sectors of the IPO market. Airbnb (ABNB), Doordash (DASH), Snowflake (SNOW), Lufax Holding (LU), and… Source link

The decision to start the fifth pick of the draft probably got more scrutiny than it deserved. When Brian Flores announced earlier this season that the Miami Dolphins were switching quarterbacks from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Tua Tagovailoa, it was far from an easily accepted decision. People wondered how the Dolphins could bench Fitzpatrick, especially with the Dolphins on a two-game winning streak and holding a 3-3 record. It has turned out pretty well. The Dolphins have gone 5-2 in Tagovailoa’s… Source link

Coastal Carolina emerged as the darling of this college football season, with mullets flowing from their helmets, a swashbuckling ethos and an undefeated season that captured the country’s attention. Coastal Carolina is in just its fourth season of FBS football. And the school will play in its first-ever bowl game, the Cure Bowl, against Liberty in Orlando on Saturday. But the conclusion of the Coastal Carolina’s 11-0 season brought with it some of the cruel realities that accompany the… Source link

GlobeNewswire North America Airport Antenna Market Forecast to 2027 – COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis by Airport Type, Antenna Type, Frequency Band, and Application Market Introduction. An antenna is a device that receives and transmits electrical signals. Antennas play an important role in airports to facilitate mobile telephony, satellite communication, and wireless local area networks.New York, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report… Source link

Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult legal, policy and public relations teams before pursuing topics such as… Source link

The stock market has been looking a little top heavy for weeks on end after an early winter melt-up. But absent President Trump signing off on a new stimulus bill that features his demands for fatter stimulus checks to households reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, the math suggests stocks would be too overvalued to not justify a correction. Long-time market strategist Hugh Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors told Yahoo Finance Live he thought stocks were about 8.5% overvalued before Trump threw… Source link

It’s not like anyone was withholding judgment on the Arizona Cardinals’ trade for DeAndre Hopkins. There was nothing to judge. When Hopkins was available to the Cardinals from then-Houston Texans coach Bill O’Brien for practically nothing, and the Cardinals somehow got to dump running back David Johnson’s bad contract in the process, it was not even a decision. It was one of the rare NFL moves that took no thought, the Cardinals just had to say yes and reap the rewards. It was… Source link

Share Tweet Share Share Share Email The Google Pay revamp, launched last month (Nov. 18), has catapulted the app to the top of the charts. The app quickly became No. 1 for finance on the Google Play App Store, the website Apptopia reported. By Dec. 9, it had skyrocketed to No. 1 overall, and has stayed there since. Beyond that, on Apple’s App Store, Google Pay hit No. 1 for the finance category by Dec. 16. Only four days later, it had gone to the top of the charts in the overall category…. Source link