A nurse disinfects the hands of a patient at the Calesas healthcare centre in the Usera neighbourhood, under partial lockdown, in Madrid. OSCAR DEL POZO | AFP | Getty Images Europe is now grappling with a second wave of coronavirus infections that could once again wreak significant damage on the region’s economy. The euro zone,
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Doug Hirsch, Co-Founder and C0-CEO of GoodRx. Heidi Petty | CNBC Shares of GoodRx, a company that finds users prescription drugs at a discount, jumped 40% in its public debut Wednesday on the Nasdaq. The stock began trading at $46 per share, up from its IPO price of $33 per share, boosting its market cap
Cruise bookings for 2021 are down, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Lines Frank Del Rio told CNBC on Tuesday, acknowledging the sustained impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on global travel and the industry. Cruise executives have previously painted a rosier picture of future bookings, touting pent-up demand as the pandemic has left ships stationed in
DeAndre Hopkins #10 of the Arizona Cardinals attempts to avoid a tackle against Jimmy Moreland #20 of the Washington Football Team during the second quarter at State Farm Stadium on September 20, 2020 in Glendale, Arizona. Norm Hall | Getty Images Sports drink company BioSteel on Tuesday announced a multi-year deal with Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre
Supporters of the Affordable Care Act celebrate as the opinion for health care is reported outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, June 25, 2015. Al Drago | CQ Roll Call Shares of health insurers and hospitals sold off sharply Monday, following the death of supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the looming battle
[embedded content] [The stream is slated to start at 11:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The World Health Organization is holding a press briefing Monday on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 31 million people worldwide and killed at least 961,200
Veego, a plant-based protein developed by Life3 Biotech that tastes like chicken. Courtesy Life3 Biotech The coronavirus crisis has magnified Singapore‘s food security concerns — an issue made worse by climate change — and the city-state is looking to ramp up its local food production. Tech entrepreneurs say they want to help. To boost national self-sufficiency, more local start-ups
A patient under respiratory assistance is escorted to the Strasbourg University Hospital by members of the medical staff of the SAMU-SMUR emergency services who wear protective suits and facemasks, in Strasbourg, on March 16, 2020 during a COVID-19 outbreak hitting Europe. Patrick Hertzog | AFP | Getty Images Some European countries, including the U.K. and
The World Health Organization warned Friday that the coronavirus is “not going away,” noting that it’s still killing about 50,000 people a week. “That is not where we want to be,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, said of Covid-19 deaths during a news conference at the agency’s Geneva headquarters.
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2020. Erin Scott | POOL | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reversed controversial coronavirus testing guidance, which previously said that people who
President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. will manufacture at least 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses before the end of the year with enough to inoculate every American by April “Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April and again I’ll
Tourists look at a placard by the city of Nice of hygienic measures and the activities allowed on the beach at the ‘Promenade des Anglais’ in the French riviera city of Nice, southern France, on May 16, 2020, after France eased lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday recommended the stock of Amwell as a buy, but advised investors wait on the share price to come down before starting a position. Amwell, a telemedicine supplier that began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this afternoon, closed at $23.07 a share in its first day on the public
Bill Sikes | AP Biotech firm Moderna said Thursday it will begin developing a vaccine for the influenza season. “We are announcing that we are increasing our investment in vaccines and we will develop a seasonal flu vaccine given the unmet need for highly effective vaccines,” CEO Stephane Bancel said in a press release. Influenza has resulted in
President Donald Trump said the U.S. government could start distributing a coronavirus vaccine as early as October, a much more optimistic estimate than his own health officials have publicly advised. “We’re very close to that vaccine as you know and I think much closer than I think most people want to say,” Trump said during
Posters in the window a a closing-down shop advertise a “Stock Liquidation” in Manchester, northern England on August 12, 2020. Paul Ellis | AFP | Getty Images The global economy has performed better-than-expected but it is still on track for an “unprecedented” decline in output, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned Wednesday. In
A medical worker, wearing disposable gloves, measures the temperature of a man at a coronavirus drive-through screening center on April 1, 2020 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Francois Nel | Getty Images PARIS — The United Arab Emirates has approved a Chinese coronavirus vaccine for emergency use for its frontline health workers, its top crisis
Small bottles labeled with a “Vaccine COVID-19” sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken taken April 10, 2020. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Business leaders have called on nations to be more inclusive when thinking about how they can reboot their economies following the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a CNBC-moderated panel at
Albert Bourla, Pfizer Gian Ehrenzeller | Keystone | AP Pfizer‘s coronavirus vaccine could be distributed to Americans before the end of the year if found to be safe and effective, CEO Albert Bourla said Sunday. The drugmaker should have key data from its late-stage trial for the Food and Drug Administration by the end of October, Bourla said
Coronavirus cases continued to grow over the weekend in nearly a dozen U.S. states as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, warns about the nation’s worrying level of new infections. Covid-19 cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out daily reporting, in 11 states as