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(Bloomberg) — Moderna Inc. climbed more than 6% in extended trading Thursday after the vaccine maker was named to the S&P 500 Index in one of the most noteworthy additions to the index since Tesla Inc. joined late last year. The company, whose messenger-RNA vaccine has helped to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. in the benchmark U.S. index before the opening of trading on July 21. Alexion is set to be acquired by U.K. drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc. Shares of… Source link

kate_sept2004 / Getty Images Teenagers are suddenly a hot commodity in the U.S. labor market this summer, as employers scramble to fill jobs in a market where numerous industries face severe worker shortages. See: Teens Can Expect Plenty of Job Opportunities This Summer, and Wages Are UpFind: Should Teens Save for College or Retirement? Take Our Poll Nearly six million Americans between the ages of 16 and 19 are leveraging a shortage of adult workers to find jobs this summer, the Financial… Source link

Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card, which it calls a COVID Card, on their phone. The feature will initially roll out in the US, and it will rely on support from healthcare providers, local governments, or other organizations authorized to distribute COVID vaccines. The feature will also support storing COVID test results. For vaccinations, your COVID Card will show info on when you were vaccinated and which vaccine you… Source link

Over the weekend, Google and the state of Massachusetts managed to make creepy COVID tracking apps even creepier by automatically installing them on people’s Android phones. Numerous reports on Reddit, Hacker News, and in-app reviews claim that “MassNotify,” Massachusetts’ COVID tracking app, silently installed on their Android device without user consent. Google gave the following statement to 9to5Google, and the company does not deny… Source link

Parul Khakhar describes herself as a ‘homemaker first – and a poet, second’ One morning in early May, a poetess living in a nondescript town in India’s western state of Gujarat finished her chores and picked up the newspapers. India was in the throes of a deadly second wave of the coronavirus. Disturbing pictures of India’s holiest river, the Ganges, swollen with bodies of people feared to have died of Covid-19 filled the front pages. There were reports of overflowing cremation grounds, and of… Source link

(Bloomberg) — China will risk international isolation if it fails to allow a “real” investigation on its territory into the origins of the virus that caused the pandemic, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said. President Joe Biden is traveling to North Carolina on Thursday to encourage more Americans to get vaccinated. Russia, Germany and Portugal reported an expanding spread of the highly transmissible delta variant that first appeared in India. Scott Gottlieb, a former head… Source link

The Phoenix Suns will be without Chris Paul when they kick off the Western Conference finals on Sunday. Paul, the team announced on Saturday, is out for Game 1 against the Los Angeles Clippers and is still in the NBA’s COVID-19 health and safety protocols. It’s unclear when Paul will be able to return. Paul entered health and safety protocols on Wednesday, after the Suns had already closed out their earlier series against the Denver Nuggets.  The 36-year-old has not publicly said if he has… Source link

More than 11,000 students and 3,000 proud parents turned up unmasked at a stadium in Wuhan, China, for a graduation ceremony. Stringer/Reuters China Thousands of students and their parents attended a graduation ceremony at a stadium in Wuhan, China. The grads in the coronavirus pandemic’s first epicenter weren’t wearing masks or social distancing. This is because China has reported fewer than 20 cases a day across its 23 provinces. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. For several thousand… Source link

The Chicago Cubs still haven’t hit the 85 percent vaccination threshold, and may never if their president of baseball operations is to be believed. Jason Heyward doesn’t think that’s a problem, or at least not as much of a problem as what’s happening in the Wrigley Field stands. Speaking with the Chicago Tribune’s Phil Thompson, Heyward said he still hasn’t received the COVID-19 vaccine, but pointed to the protocols around MLB’s fans as ballparks move to 100 percent capacity: “There’s… Source link

New Covid-19 cases are declining across the United States, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations, but experts say the nation paid for the situation “with deaths”. But almost all states bucking that trend have lower-than-average vaccination rates, and experts warn that relief from the pandemic could be fleeting in regions where few people get inoculated. Case totals nationally have declined in a week from a seven-day average of nearly 21,000 on May 29 to 14,315 on Saturday,… Source link