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 »COVID-19 infection in children: this is what we know
Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, children have largely been spared the worst health impacts of COVID-19. The same SARS-CoV-2 virus capable of killing a 50-year-old boy could leave a four-year-old boy unharmed. Now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that K-12 schools reopen this fall, …
Read More »“I would buy now and keep buying,” says pioneering gold investor
“ “When interest rates are zero or close to zero, then gold is an attractive medium because you don’t have to worry about not getting interest on your gold and you see that the price of gold will increase as uncertainty increases in the markets.” . “ – Mark Mobius …
Read More »Moderna lost a patent case and stock is slipping
Text size Maddie Meyer / Getty Images Moderna on Thursday lost a patent case that had been almost entirely overlooked as the stock increased due to excitement over the company’s Covid-19 vaccine, which will be tested in a large Phase 3 trial to begin. next week. What the decision issued …
Read More »What a typhoid outbreak from World War II can teach us about how to stop the coronavirus
Deportations to the Warsaw ghetto. Leszno street near the intersection with Żelazna street.Photo: unknown / Wikimedia Commons (Fair use) More than 70 years ago, a jailed community in Nazi-occupied Poland banded together to contain a deadly typhus epidemic, largely without the help of effective vaccines or medications. Instead, according to …
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