U.S. to Share AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine Doses With World
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is making plans to share millions of doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and preparing a major...
Infectious Diseases
Restaurants Serve Up Signing Bonuses, Higher Pay to Win Back Workers
Restaurants spent much of the past year trying to win back customers. Now, they are struggling to win back employees.Nationwide...
How Qatar Airways, With Its Covid-19 Playbook, Dethroned Emirates as Biggest Long-Haul Airline
Qatar Airways Ltd. spent years in the shadow of Emirates Airline. An aggressive run at its rival during the pandemic...
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Shot to Be Given Again at Vaccination Sites
Health officials around the country are preparing to resume offering Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ 0.21% Covid-19 vaccine as soon as...
J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Pause Over Blood-Clot Fear Is Under Review
Johnson & Johnson’s JNJ 0.31% Covid-19 vaccine could be back in circulation this weekend—albeit with a warning or possible restrictions—depending...
Russia Raises Rates Amid Standoff With West, Signs of Covid-19 Economic Recovery
Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate, a move that may help support the ruble amid tensions with the...
Southwest, American Say Leisure Travel Rebounding as Summer Season Approaches
Major airlines this week reiterated confidence that the travel market, at least for leisure, is rebounding from the deep losses...
U.S. Unemployment Claims Hit Covid-19 Pandemic Low
Worker filings for jobless benefits declined to 547,000 last week, a new pandemic low that adds to evidence of a...
WSJ News Exclusive | Pfizer Identifies Fake Covid-19 Shots Abroad as Criminals Exploit Vaccine Demand
Pfizer Inc. PFE 1.28% says it has identified in Mexico and Poland the first confirmed instances of counterfeit versions of...
EU Calls for J&J Vaccine Warning, But Says Benefits Outweigh Risks
Europe’s health agency said a warning should be added to the product information of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine...
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Adds $100 Million to Quarterly Sales
Johnson & Johnson ’s Covid-19 vaccine contributed $100 million to the company’s sales growth in the latest quarter, as U.S....
South by Southwest Stake Is Sold to Owner of Rolling Stone in Effort to Keep Festival Alive
Penske Media Corp., the publisher of magazines like Rolling Stone, Billboard and Variety, agreed to acquire a 50% stake in...
A $16 Billion Covid-19 Rescue Program for Music Venues Fails to Launch
Thousands of performance venues thought last week would mark the end of a long wait for rescue funds from a...
Chinese Economy Grew More Than 18% in First Quarter
BEIJING—China’s economy surged 18.3% in the first quarter from a year earlier, a record rate of growth that reflected the...
Delta Reports Another Quarterly Loss, but Says Travel Demand Is Rising
Delta Air Lines Inc. signaled the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is likely behind it, as the airline anticipates that...
UnitedHealth Posts Stronger Quarterly Results as Membership Grows
UnitedHealth UNH 3.83% Group Inc. recorded a first-quarter profit that beat Wall Street’s expectations and raised its projection on results...
U.S. Vaccine Panel Delays Vote on J&J Covid-19 Shot’s Blood-Clotting Risk
The federal government’s recommendation to pause using Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine will remain in place after an advisory panel...
U.S. Seeks to Pause J&J Covid-19 Vaccine Use After Rare Blood-Clot Cases
U.S. health authorities recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine in order to investigate rare...
U.S. Budget Deficit Widened to a Record $1.7 Trillion for Six Months, as Stimulus Checks Fueled Spending
The U.S. budget deficit grew to a record $1.7 trillion in the first half of the fiscal year as a...
Covid-19 Drug Prevents Symptomatic Disease in Study, Regeneron Says
An antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. reduced the risk of developing symptomatic Covid-19 infection by 81% compared with a...
