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With more COVID hotspots popping up around the country and the Delta variant as the dominant strain, unvaccinated individuals in the U.S. may be more vulnerable than at any other point when vaccines were available amid the pandemic.  “If you are unvaccinated, this is probably the most dangerous point in time of the pandemic to date,” Dr. Sejal Hathi, faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s incredibly important that… Source link

Bitcoin dropped below $30,000, breaking below a trading range that had held for the past four weeks and potentially setting up the largest cryptocurrency for deeper price declines. The cryptocurrency was trading around $29,998 at press time and is down about 5% over the past week. Bitcoin has been locked in the broad price range of $30,000 to $40,000 since mid-May, and briefly broke below the $30,000 mark on June 22. The cryptocurrency fleetingly traded at $29,700 a day after the People’s… Source link

Clover Health (CLOV) CEO Vivek Garipalli has had a tumultuous year following the company’s merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s SPAC. Though now a meme stock, it’s battling lawsuits spurred by a report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research alleging the company withheld information about legal issues from investors. It isn’t the health care executive’s first run-in with criticism about his business practices. Three New Jersey hospitals he owned and operated, with two partners, made… Source link

A nurse works on a patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) on January 7, 2020. Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images A 90-year-old Belgian woman died in March after contracting two coronavirus strains at the same time. The woman, who had both the UK and South African variant, died five days after getting sick. Researchers say the case is the first of its kind, but warn there could be more. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A 90-year-old Belgian woman who died from COVID-19 in… Source link

Biden just canceled millions more in student loan debt — who qualifies this time? The Biden administration is wiping out another tens of millions of dollars in student loan debt, affecting borrowers who were deceived by schools that are now out of business. With this new debt forgiveness, the Department of Education has now canceled at least $3 billion in student loans since the beginning of the year. Borrowers have been given more room in their budgets to save, invest or get a grip on their… Source link

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Oh boy, crypto miners. Companies like SOS Limited (SOS) have been on a rocky ride of late, to say the least. Since hitting a high of nearly $16 per share earlier this year during the initial meme stock rally, shares of SOS stock have been on a downward trajectory. Currently, SOS stock trades at around $3 per share, at the time of writing. There are good reasons for this, and those will be described below. However, the real focus with SOS stock right now, at least among retail investors, is the… Source link

One of the craziest streaks in the sports betting world will likely end on Monday, when the Los Angeles Dodgers finally are not favored to win.  The overnight line at BetMGM for Monday night’s Dodgers-San Diego Padres game has the Padres as -125 favorites, which isn’t a big deal for any team other than the Dodgers. For the Dodgers, it’s the first time since 2019 they have been underdogs.  The Dodgers’ streak ends at a clean 150 straight games without being an underdog. It’s rare for a… Source link

From left: Study volunteer and virologist Joseph Hyser, Chanei Henry, senior research coordinator of molecular virology and microbiology, and Dr. Robert Atmar, the principal investigator on the study. Baylor College of Medicine Scientists in the US are starting a booster shot trial, giving fully vaccinated people another jab. Participants are given a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine – whether they previously got 2 shots of an mRNA vaccine (from Pfizer or Moderna) or 1 adenovirus (J&J)… Source link

August 28, 2020. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. Preparations to fly a hot air balloon at sunrise. Prices of everything; a house in Phoenix, a Ford F-150, a plane ticket to New York, have all gone up. That much is true. Unfortunately pretty much everything else about inflation—a red hot topic these days—is conjecture. And that’s vexing, not just for the dismal scientists (aka economists), but for all of us, because whether or not prices are really rising, by how much and for how long, has… Source link