CNN By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Pfizer reported that earnings and sales more than doubled in the past quarter, and it raised its outlook for results the full year, thanks greatly to its Covid-19 vaccine. The company reported adjusted earnings of $7.7 billion, up 133% from a year earlier. Revenue soared to $24.1 billion, up
Continue ReadingCNN, WCCO By Jen Christensen, CNN Millions of child-size doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine are being shipped from the company’s facilities to distribution centers across the country — ready to go out to pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices, the Biden administration said Monday. They’re just waiting for the OK from the US Centers for Disease Control
Continue ReadingBy Susannah Cullinane, Jason Hanna and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN About 9,000 of New York City’s 378,000 municipal employees were on leave without pay as of Monday because they haven’t complied with a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for city workers, the mayor said Monday. Members of the fire and police departments and other city workers had until
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There were five newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon over the weekend, raising the state’s death toll to 4,377, Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The United States’ Covid-19 vaccination program for children ages 5 to 11 will be “running at full strength” next week, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients said during a virtual White House briefing Monday. “While vaccinations may start later this week, the program will still be ramping up to its
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN The Federal Register will publish within days the Labor Department’s rule requiring private businesses with 100 or more employees to vaccinate them or test them weekly, fulfilling an announcement President Joe Biden made in September. The Office of Management and Budget completed its required review of the emergency
Continue ReadingBy Christina Maxouris, Artemis Moshtaghian and Ralph Ellis, CNN Hundreds of New York City firefighters called in sick Monday morning as the Covid-19 vaccine mandate for municipal employees went into effect, bringing the total number of sickouts in the fire department to 2,300, FDNY Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro said at a news conference. Normally, 800-1,000
Continue ReadingCNN, HUFFPOST, REDDIT By Samantha Beech, Jake Kwon and Helen Regan, CNN The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has surpassed five million, according to data held by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center. JHU’s global tally of deaths reached 5,000,425 at 4:50 a.m. ET on Monday. It
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who dropped off President Joe Biden’s international trip shortly before he departed, has tested positive for coronavirus after members of her household did, she said in a statement Sunday. Psaki said she last saw Biden Tuesday outside while masked, before the President departed for Rome
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Joseph, CNN Singer Jon Bon Jovi tested positive for Covid-19 before a Saturday performance, prompting the cancellation of a Florida concert. Bon Jovi is “fully vaccinated and feeling fine,” his publicist Kristen Foster confirmed to CNN Sunday morning, adding the performer is isolating and doesn’t have any future public performing events scheduled at
Continue ReadingBy Rob Frehse, CNN New York State health care workers will no longer have a religious exemption to the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a federal appeals court vacated a temporary injunction Friday. The three-judge panel in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit also sent the two court cases back to the
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday gave emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11, the first vaccine authorized for younger children, based on an advisory committee’s recommendation of its safety and effectiveness.
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There are 14 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including four recent deaths of Crook County residents at St. Charles Bend, raising the state’s death toll to 4,372, Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request to block a Maine rule that requires certain health care employees to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. A group of unvaccinated workers argued that the vaccine mandate violated their religious liberty rights. The court’s right wing — Justice Neil
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization on Friday for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized in the United States for younger children. The FDA’s vaccine advisers voted 17-0 with one abstention on Tuesday to recommend EUA for the
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There are 24 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 4,358, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Lemos and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday announced the state has officially filed a new lawsuit in Tampa against the Biden administration over the President’s order imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors, set to take effect December 8. DeSantis said his administration is seeking a preliminary injunction to
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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is applauding numbers showing that about 94% of state employees are vaccinated against COVID-19 or have received exemptions from his mandate, and 3.1% are waiting to get a vaccine or exemption. Inslee on Thursday said another 2.9% of state employees have left their jobs, either
Continue ReadingBy Dakin Andone, CNN Members of the New York City Fire Department gathered Thursday to protest the city’s looming Covid-19 vaccine mandate as officials brace for possible mass staffing shortages. According to the mandate, members of the fire department, the New York Police Department and other city workers have until 5 p.m. Friday to have
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The Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday that 80% of Oregonians 18 and older have had at least one dose in their vaccination series against COVID-19.
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