Covid-19 vaccines are poised to become big business. Its potential to generate staggering revenue has already added billions of dollars to the market value of drug makers like Pfizer and Moderna.. That promise is also drawing scrutiny in Washington. Rising prescription drug costs are one of the few problems where …
Read More »“We want a stable dollar,” says US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: “It is the world’s reserve currency and we are going to protect that.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
Read More »Race for a Covid-19 vaccine could have political side effects
As the Covid-19 crisis intensifies in the United States, the fight for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine starting in October. Meanwhile, the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine …
Read More »The Republican senator demands answers after the attack: “Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account?”
“ ‘A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to the privacy and data security of all its users. … Did this attack threaten the security of the President’s own Twitter account? “ – Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri The above lines came Wednesday from Republican Sen. …
Read More »USA Today says Peter Navarro’s op-ed criticizing Anthony Fauci was “misleading” and did not meet “fact-check standards”
Just as the war of words between Anthony Fauci and the Trump administration seemed poised to come to a stop, things suddenly took another nasty turn. The fractured relationship between President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and …
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