National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins told CNBC that “it was very likely” that the U.S. government is close to a deal with Pfizer for up to an additional 100 million Covid vaccine doses. “It is good news it sounds like it’s very likely,” said Collins. “We’ll have 400 million doses between Pfizer
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted yet another false claim about the election as he reportedly has rattled close White House advisors by talking with conspiracy-minded allies who have fueled his fantasies of undoing Joe Biden‘s victory. They have floated suggestions including having Trump declare martial law and rerunning the election in states where he
Former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that the highly contagious, new mutation of Covid-19 found in the United Kingdom “is already in the U.S.” as more than 40 countries ban travel to and from the U.K. for 48 hours or more. “I don’t think a travel ban, at this point, is going to prevent
Christy Ruffell, manager of clinic nursing standards at UCHealth Medical Center, left, administers the Covid-19 vaccine to CNA Luis Perez, right, at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital on December 14, 2020 in Fort Collins, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s coronavirus vaccine czar said Monday that he expects
Peter Endig | AFP | Getty Images Amazon has closed a warehouse in northern New Jersey until Dec. 26 after it saw an uptick in asymptomatic coronavirus cases. Employees at the Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, facility, known as PNE5, were informed Saturday that the site would temporarily close, according to a notice obtained by CNBC.
Workers move boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as they are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan on December 13, 2020. Morry Gash | AFP | Getty Images Officials with Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government program to distribute Covid-19 vaccines to Americans, had to slash
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 20: Apple CEO Tim Cook greets customers at the grand reopening of Apple’s flagship Apple Fifth Avenue retail store on September 20, 2019 in New York City. Taylor Hill | WireImage | Getty Images Apple has temporarily closed all 53 of its retail stores in California after the number
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on November 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that China might have been behind a cyberattack affecting multiple U.S. government agencies and companies, despite Secretary of State
Rick Gates, senior vice president of pharmacy and healthcare at Walgreens, told CNBC that getting vaccines to the general public “won’t be chaos” as the FDA authorized Moderna‘s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use and set plans in motion to get states nearly 6 million doses by early next week. “What you’re going to see, is we’re going to be very thoughtful on
The Google logo outside if its New York City offices, which were closed on May 19, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ben Gabbe/Getty Images The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google likely won’t go to trial until late 2023, Judge Amit Mehta said at a status hearing on Friday. Both parties agreed that seemed
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images In a series of tweets this week, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked people who list the pronouns they would
Home for sale sign in Boulder, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson | Denver Post | Getty Images It is a lot harder to find an inexpensive home to buy and flip in today’s ultra-competitive housing market, but those who can will make a hefty profit. While home flipping activity overall dropped in the third quarter of
Former Health and Human Services official Dr. Mario Ramirez told CNBC that he was “concerned” about equitable access to Covid-19 resources around the globe, and criticized the Trump administration for not participating in the multilateral COVAX facility. “One of the things that was unfortunate about the Trump administration’s approach to the pandemic, was that they
Dr. Scott Gottlieb expressed concerns Wednesday about the smooth administration of Covid-19 vaccines next year, when shots become available for Americans who are not health-care workers or residents of long-term care facilities. The former Food and Drug Administration commissioner pointed to the challenges that have been reportedly experienced around administering antibody drugs to Americans, suggesting those
Peter Endig | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is encouraging front-line employees in California to get weekly Covid-19 tests, as the state rolls out new emergency workplace protections for the coronavirus. “In accordance with Cal/OSHA’s new Covid-19 emergency regulations, we encourage all Amazon employees to get tested for Covid-19 at least once a week starting
Mitch McConnell speaks with Nancy Pelosi following an on Dec.8, 2016 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited her fellow congressional leaders to a meeting Tuesday to try to strike deals to fund the government and send another round of coronavirus relief, a source familiar with her outreach said.
Heinrich van den Berg | Getty Images Apple’s Siri assistant can now quack like a duck if you ask it nicely. To try it out, users have to update to iOS 14.3, the newest version of the iPhone operating system, and say, “Hey Siri, what does a duck sound like?” In response, Siri will play
New sneakers, a MacBook, a Peloton — you can pay for almost anything in installments these days. Like the layaway plans of old, but now called point-of-sale loans, “buy now, pay later” lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments without interest or fees, even using a debit card, which can make even the