Despite the urgency of beating COVID-19, health officials may delay the development of an effective vaccine. Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere have yet to authorize an ethical charge investigation procedure called “trials with human challenge.” Challenge tests deliberately involve volunteers with the disease – which explains the official retention …
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The number of new cases of coronavirus in the U.S. rose, but remained below 50,000 for the fourth day in a row, as some universities and schools moved classes online to prevent campus outbreaks. The U.S. reported more than 44,000 new cases of coronavirus Tuesday, sharply up from 35,112 the …
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Home Depot Inc. published Tuesday its strongest quarterly sales in nearly 20 years, as the largest home improvement retailer benefited from the growing interest in household projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. Revenue for the Atlanta-based retailer rose 23% to $ 38.05 billion in the May-July period, up from $ 30.84 …
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Some hopeful signs began to emerge when the US recorded the lowest daily number of new coronavirus cases in nearly eight weeks and hospitalizations continued to decline. But recent outbreaks in a number of schools and universities across the country have shown that catching the virus remains a challenge. The …
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Two years out of college, Leah Sanders made as much as $ 19,000 a month using oil wells in Kuwait. After being fired in May by oilfield giant Schlumberger Ltd., she returned with her parents to Tennessee, earning $ 15 an hour to help with her father’s construction business. She …
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