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The Washington Nationals inched closer Saturday to finally opening the regular season. The team reportedly experienced no new positive COVID-19 results in their latest batch of tests, according to Britt Ghiroli and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The Nationals have yet to open the 2021 MLB season after a positive COVID-19 test prior to the team’s opening game. As a result, MLB postponed the team’s opener against the New York Mets. There was hope the Nationals could have returned to play… Source link

MLB might be playing a 162-game schedule with fans in attendance, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is no longer a threat to its 2021 season. The Washington Nationals experienced some 2020 deja vu on Wednesday, when general manager Mike Rizzo revealed that an unidentified player had tested positive for COVID-19, according to Jesse Dougherty of The Washington Post. Additionally, five other members of the team — four players and a staff member — have been quarantined after contact… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks That Could Go Boom Arguably the most controversial on the Street, penny stocks are a hot-button issue. Usually, there isn’t a lot of middle-ground with respect to these tickers priced for less than $5 apiece. Dividing market watchers into two distinct groups, both sides present valid arguments laying out the pros and cons. Sure, there is reason enough to be skeptical. Often, a cheap stock is cheap for a reason, with the low share price potentially… Source link

Chewy on Tuesday reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings results, which sent its shares surging in the after-hours session. Here are the key results for Q4 versus expectations, according to Bloomberg data: The online seller of pet food and supplies saw net sales top $2 billion for the first time, climbing nearly 51% from a year ago to $2.04 billion. For the fiscal year, net sales jumped more than 47% to $7.15 billion. It also reported 19.2 million active customers, adding 5.7… Source link

(Reuters) – Players at the Miami Open on Monday expressed little love for COVID-19 vaccines, with many saying they want more information before getting a shot. Seventh seeded Aryna Sabalenka expressed more concern over the vaccine than her quarterfinal opponent number one Ash Barty while fifth seed Elina Svitolina said she was inclined to take the advice of friends and wait. “So far I don’t really trust it,” Sabalenka told reporters following her fourth round 6-1 6-2 mugging of Marketa… Source link

The New York Times 11 Years On, the Affordable Care Act Defies Opponents and Keeps Expanding WASHINGTON — More than 200,000 Americans flocked to the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace to sign up for health insurance during the first two weeks of an open enrollment period created by President Joe Biden — a sign that those who lost insurance during the pandemic remain in desperate need of coverage. At the same time, a provision in the president’s $1.9 trillion stimulus law to make… Source link

On Monday, Google Cloud revealed the role it had played in five states’ mass vaccination initiatives and announced that it would be working with more in the months to come.   According to a blog post by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia have partnered with the company to support their vaccination efforts at scale. Mike Daniels, VP of global public sector at Google Cloud, told Healthcare IT News the company’s efforts are “designed to… Source link

When the pandemic upended the economy last year, companies took a hard look at their advertising plans. Oreos maker Mondelez International Inc. MDLZ 0.19% shifted money meant for TV commercials during March Madness basketball and the summer Olympics into digital platforms. A hefty chunk went to Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.11% Google, which offered data on what locked-down snack lovers were… Source link

Pisac Peruvian Bistro, a restaurant located in Toronto’s Summerhill neighbourhood, was just five weeks old when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and it was forced to close its doors to the public. “The last year has been a rollercoaster,” Pisac founder and chef Renzo Galleno said in an interview. “If I had known what was going to happen, I probably wouldn’t have opened up a restaurant. It’s been quite a learning experience.” When Pisac initially opened last February, Galleno had no plans… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen.  The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link