Odilest Guerrier, Medical Assistant, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Pasqual Cruz at a clinic set up by Healthcare Network on May 20, 2021 in Immokalee, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Twelve U.S. states now have 70% of adult residents with at least one Covid vaccine shot, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data
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Crowds of people are seen shopping during a weekly market at Kandivali. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images India is expected to see double-digit expansion in the three months ending in June — but economists warn that the data won’t be painting the full picture of the country’s growth trajectory. South Asia’s largest economy
In this article .CRBQX HPE Zoom founder Eric Yuan poses in front of the Nasdaq building as the screen shows the logo of the video-conferencing software company Zoom after the opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019 in New York City. Kena Betancur | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell
Anna Mendez, LPN, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Vern Henderson at a clinic set up by Healthcare Network on May 20, 2021 in Immokalee, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images More than 50% of the U.S. population has received one Covid vaccine shot or more, federal data shows, as nationwide case counts continue to
The latest Covid-19 outbreak in Taiwan is a lesson that a containment strategy aiming for zero local transmission may not be sustainable in the long term, a public health professor said Tuesday. Before the recent explosion in cases, Taiwan had reported very few Covid infections for more than a year — and most were imported.
Covid-19 vaccination drive at a Government health centre during Covid-19 emergency in Kolkata, India, 03 May, 2021. Pfizer in talks with India over expedited approval for Covid-19 vaccine according to an Indian media report. Indranil Aditya | NurPhoto | Getty Images India’s economy is expected to have improved in the three months that ended in
Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s prime minister. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday that the country’s Covid restrictions may be relaxed after June 13 if the situation improves. “Barring another super-spreader or big cluster, we should be on track to bring this outbreak under control,”
Global Wellness expert Deepak Chopra has told CNBC that he is “devastated” and “heartbroken” about the Covid-19 crisis currently gripping India, saying he feels the country could have managed the situation much better. Chopra, who was born and raised in New Delhi before continuing his medical training in the U.S., said he hopes lessons have
In this article VIAC DIS Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe star in “A Quiet Place Part II.” Paramount The box office was anything but quiet over the weekend. John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place Part II,” the sequel to his 2018 directorial debut, garnered $48.4 million over the weekend so far, the highest of
In this article DIS Simu Liu stars as Shang-Chi in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” Disney If Hollywood needed a sign that diverse content sells, it got one in 2018. It started with the blockbuster “Black Panther,” which smashed box office records and went on to win three of the six
Close-up of discounted cans and cases of packaged cocktails on Safeway store shelves in Lafayette, California, December 31, 2020. Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images This summer’s hottest cocktail comes in a can. Between 2019 and 2020, the premixed cocktail category grew by 50% in the United States, according to industry tracker IWSR.
A bird flies by in the foreground as a Southwest Airlines jet comes in for a landing at McCarran International Airport on May 25, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images Southwest Airlines said it is delaying plans to resume serving alcoholic beverages, after one of its flight attendants was assaulted and
Americans are expected to spend roughly $4.7 billion on gas during the Friday through Monday of Memorial Day weekend, according to GasBuddy, an app and website focused on finding real-time fuel prices. That breaks down to about $1.18 billion spent on gas each day, give or take $1 million, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum
kali9 | E+ | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its public health guidance for summer camps Friday, saying fully vaccinated teens don’t need to wear face masks or stay 6 feet away from others. Fully vaccinated teens should still wear masks where required, including at local businesses and workplaces, according
In this article AMC Street performers in Minnie Mouse costumes pass in front of an AMC movie theater at night in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, Oct. 15, 2020. Amir Hamja | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors shorting the meme stock AMC Entertainment are estimated to have lost $1.23 billion over the last
The coronavirus threat in the U.S. is likely to be rather low this summer, but it’s not guaranteed to stay that way later this year, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday. “I don’t think we should declare mission accomplished. I think that we should declare a near-term victory,” the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner said
Free speech advocate Suzanne Nossel said Thursday she found John Cena’s apology to China “troubling” after he called Taiwan a country during a promotional interview for his upcoming film, “Fast and Furious 9.” “It felt like a forced confession,” Nossel, the CEO of nonprofit Pen America, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith.” “This clear
In this article VIAC Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe star in “A Quiet Place Part II.” Paramount Pictures John Krasinski has dazzled critics again. The writer-director’s follow-up feature to 2018’s “A Quiet Place” currently holds a 91% “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 135 reviews. “A Quiet Place Part II” is the much
In this article FORD F Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley walks to speak at a news conference at the Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, September 17, 2020. Rebecca Cook | Reuters Ford Motor‘s stock jumped 8.5% Wednesday during CEO Jim Farley’s first investor day as shareholders welcomed the automaker’s new “Ford+” plan aimed at
Electric vehicle manufacturing currently faces an “embedded carbon” challenge, says Jefferies’ Simon Powell. “To gain the environmental dividend that governments are looking for, users are going to have to keep them longer, drive them further than they may have done with a conventional internal combustion energy vehicle,” Powell, head of global thematic research at the