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Donald Trump Jr. went after people “touting Bidenomics” before a wild claim that looked back at his father’s administration on Thursday. “I can’t think of a single metric where anyone is better off now than they were three years ago – even with COVID, frankly,” said the former president’s son at an Iowa campaign event just days prior to the state’s GOP caucuses. CDC data shows there were over 107,000 weekly COVID-19 hospital admissions in the week ending Jan. 16, 2021 –… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]COVID is ‘pretty much out of the models’ for pharma companies: Wells Fargo analyst  Yahoo Finance Source link

BEIJING (Reuters) – The possibility of a big COVID-19 rebound in China over the next two or three months is remote as 80% of people have been infected, a prominent government scientist said on Saturday. The mass movement of people during the ongoing Lunar New Year holiday period may spread the pandemic, boosting infections in some areas, but a second COVID wave is unlikely in the near term, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on the… Source link

A recent view of Milan. (Mairo Cinquetti/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) BARCELONA, Spain — A report released Friday morning by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the continent was improving compared with the spikes of new cases and hospitalizations experienced in December. But experts who spoke with Yahoo News painted a much less encouraging picture, saying the ECDC “Country Overview Report” is based on… Source link

U.S. stocks descended Monday morning as unrest in China over the nation’s restrictive COVID controls weighed on global sentiment and Wall Street returned from a holiday weekend. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) sank 0.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 100 points, or 0.3%. The tchnology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was off by 0.6%. The moves come after an up week of modest gains for stocks. The S&P 500 rose 1.5%, the Dow 1.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite 0.7% over the three and a… Source link

The COVID-19 booster market is starting to look more like an annual flu season than it did in the first two years of the pandemic. That’s according to Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel, who joined Yahoo Finance’s 2022 All Markets Summit to discuss the COVID vaccine outlook. Bancel noted that not everyone is likely to need an annual booster. “I think it’s going to be like the flu. If you’re a 25-year-old do you need an annual booster every year if you’re healthy? You might want to … but I… Source link

Two-and-a-half years into the pandemic, millions of Americans are still suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19, otherwise known as Long COVID. The health impacts are clear, What’s not clear is the impact on the economy and the workplace. “I’m desperate to get back to work, but I still can’t work at a desk or talk for more than 20-30 minutes without needing to rest for hours at a time,” Charlie McCone, a 32-year-old based out of San Francisco, told Yahoo Finance. “I feel like… Source link

Google employees are reportedly frustrated with management over its requirement that workers return to the office — particularly as they have grown alarmed over the high number of COVID-19 infections among company staffers. The grumblings bubbled to the surface after it was reported last week that there was a COVID outbreak at Google’s Silicon Beach campus in Venice, Calif., where 145 people were said to be infected. The Los Angeles County Department of Health said the… Source link

Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google employees are receiving regular notifications from management of Covid-19 infections, causing some to question the company’s return-to-office mandates. The employees, who spoke with CNBC on the condition of anonymity, said since they have been asked to return to offices, infections notifications pop up in their email inboxes regularly. Employees are reacting with frustration and memes. The company began requiring most employees to return to physical… Source link

The number of Covid infections among Los Angeles-area Google employees nearly doubled over the weekend, according to the count on the county’s official Covid workplace outbreak site. On Friday, Deadline reported that the tech giant’s stylish Silicon Beach campus in Venice had recorded 145 infections. This morning, the L.A. County Public Health dashboard showed another 135 newly-tallied cases at the company’s massive Playa Vista complex. (There were another another 15 infections… Source link