Tag: Health care industry
US to launch trade talks on COVID-19 vaccine distribution
WILMINGTON, Del. — The U.S. top trade negotiator will begin talks with the World Trade Organization on ways to overcome intellectual property issues that...
India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID
NEW DELHI — In hopes of taming a monstrous spike in COVID-19 infections, India opened vaccinations to all adults Saturday, launching a huge inoculation...
Brazil backs away from the virus brink, but remains at risk
RIO DE JANEIRO — For most of this month, intensive care units across Brazil were at or near capacity amid a crush of COVID-19...
India’s COVID-19 human crisis spirals with record new cases
NEW DELHI — India’s coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open up its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a...
Canada to start to get Pfizer vaccines from the US next week
TORONTO — Canada will start getting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from the United States next week, a company spokesperson said Friday, in what will be...
Police: Suspect in hospital killings is clinic employee
BERLIN — German police said Thursday that a 51-year-old woman detained on suspicion of killing four people at a hospital in the eastern city...
Desperate Indians turn to unproven drugs as virus surges
NEW DELHI — Ashish Poddar kept an ice pack on hand as he waited outside a New Delhi hospital for a black market dealer...
Widespread infections early in the year weigh on Merck Q1
KENILWORTH, NJ — COVID-19 infections weighed Merck with so many people avoiding visits to hospitals or even the doctor early in the first quarter....
BioNTech chief: Europe will reach herd immunity by August
BERLIN — Europe can achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus within the next four months, the head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed...
Gates helps launch drive for global vaccine distribution
A new mass fundraising campaign aims to inspire 50 million people around the world to make small donations to Covax, the international effort to...
