Merck is the Big Pharma company producing an experimental antiviral pill for Covid-19 treatment is accused of selling the drug to the US at 40 times the cost of its production, found a report. Molnupiravir, manufactured by pharmaceutical company Merck, has entered into a contract with the US government to supply 1.7 million courses at …
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“Republicans and Democrats in Congress opened the door to a temporary solution to the debt ceiling issue, saying they would consider a stop-gap measure extending the borrowing limit until December. “ “A Senate vote might follow today. While the deal merely postpones the default risk until the year-end, it at least removes another downside risk …
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is offering Democrats an agreement on raising the U.S. debt ceiling through November, alleviating the immediate risk of a default. The proposal would push back the partisan confrontation over the debt ceiling but not resolve it. It would increase the ceiling by a fixed dollar amount that would be sufficient …
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© Reuters/CALLAGHAN O’HARE Inside a Covid ward in a St. Louis children’s hospital (Reuters) – When her two-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn’t think it might be COVID-19. No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough. She gave him cough syrup …
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PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) – France’s health authority (HAS) is recommending a third COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for health workers, it said in a statement on Wednesday. https://youtu.be/JZgFTnpGmpM
OIL prices could rocket in the next few weeks exacerbating the fuel shortage and leading to a winter energy crisis, City analysts are warning. That in turn will put intense pressure on central banks to shove up interest rates faster than they would like. Crude is already at a seven-year high, after Opec refused last …
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(Reuters) -Oil prices jumped on Tuesday, with U.S. crude hitting its highest since 2014 and Brent futures climbing to a three-year high, after the OPEC+ group of producers stuck to its planned output increase rather than raising it further. On Monday, OPEC+ agreed to adhere to its July pact to boost output by 400,000 barrels …
https://youtu.be/T1W8P1z5QM8 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Monday cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between …
(Reuters) – New York State’s largest healthcare provider, Northwell Health, has fired 1,400 employees who refused to get COVID-19 vaccinations, according to a spokesman, Joe Kemp. As with other healthcare companies that have recently terminated workers for not complying with vaccine mandates, the fired employees represent a small percentage of Northwell’s workforce of more …
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Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine is notably less effective six months after the second dose is administered, a new study finds. Researchers from King’s College London in the UK analyzed COVID-19 testing data and found the vaccine’s effectiveness falls from 88 percent to 77 percent after five to six months. They could not determine whether the lower …
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