President Biden touring a lab at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times The Biden administration says it has now secured enough vaccine to Continue Reading
In the latest sign yet that the global vaccination effort was falling way short of expectations, institutional traders are shunning gasoline futures in favor of other contracts. Forecasts that gasoline Continue Reading
Israel’s swift vaccination rollout has made it the largest real-world study of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine. Results are trickling in, and they are promising. Medical workers, some seen through a Continue Reading
South Africa will give the unapproved Johnson & Johnson vaccine to its front-line health workers beginning next week as a study to see what protection it provides from COVID-19, particularly Continue Reading
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state governors are to decide Wednesday whether to extend a lockdown beyond mid-February, as overall infection numbers are declining but concern is Continue Reading
The infectious disease doctor in Johannesburg thought that he and his country would only have to hold on a little longer. A million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine had arrived Continue Reading
ALL EYES are on Denmark, which subjects a large share of its coronavirus cases to genomic surveillance. That window into the pandemic shows the virus variant B.1.1.7, which is far more Continue Reading
The United States reported a 25% drop in new cases of COVID-19 to about 825,000 last week, the biggest fall since the pandemic started, although health officials said they were Continue Reading
With millions being vaccinated against Covid-19 every day, some political and business leaders are suggesting nations can help get life back to normal by rolling out a so-called vaccine passport: an easily Continue Reading
Federal officials are considering whether to require airline passengers to have a negative coronavirus test before boarding domestic flights, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Proof of a negative test result is Continue Reading
