“But you’re Asian,” Jeremy Kim heard a lot as an adult. People say it every time they find out that an Asian person doesn’t want to be a doctor or isn’t good at math, according to Kim, founder of the Hard Seltzer Company Nectar. Along with two co-founders, Kim began producing Nectar in December 2020…

On April 24, 2021, workers at Damascus International Airport in the Syrian capital unloaded boxes of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine donated by China. Loua Beshara | AFP | Getty Images The World Health Organization announced on Friday that it had approved an emergency coronavirus vaccine developed by the Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. Beijing’s Covid…

Life is Good was close to filing for bankruptcy protection last year, according to its CEO, but the retailer was able to revamp its business strategy in a matter of weeks to achieve the best year ever during the Covid pandemic. “When [Covid] hit, 50% of our business was wholesale … and that business died…

Walgreens Doctor Luis S. Solano prepares a dose of Pfizer BioNTec’s Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccine on February 22, 2021 at the Victor Walchirk Apartments in Evanston, Illinois. Kamil Krzaczynski | Reuters Pfizer and German drug maker BioNTech have initiated the process to apply for full approval of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States. This…

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a listening session on broadband internet at the New Hampshire Electric Co-op in Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 23, 2021 as she travels to the state to promote government economic plans. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images While the White House seeks to sell President Joe Biden’s multi-billion dollar…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may begin considering lifting mandates on inner masks as more Americans become vaccinated. “I think we should start lifting these restrictions as aggressively as we put them in place,” said Gottlieb. “We need to maintain the credibility of health officials to potentially re-implement some…

courtneyk | E + | Getty Images IRS funding Biden’s suggestion comes as the IRS is grappling with the volume and complexity of returns. The agency lost more than 33,378 employees between 2010 and 2020, including auditing returns and collecting unpaid taxes. These cuts have resulted in fewer audits for high-income filers. In 2020, the…

A person walks past a coal-fired power plant in Jiayuguan, Gansu province, China on Thursday April 1, 2021. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s greenhouse gas emissions were higher than those of the United States and developed countries combined in 2019, according to a report by the research and consultancy firm Rhodium Group…

Vice President Kamala Harris (C), Reign Free, Owner of Red Door Catering, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis (D-CA), listen to Luz Urrutia, CEO of the Accion Opportunity Fund (front left) zu) and Allison Kelly, Executive Director of Inner City Advisors (front right), during a visit to Red Door Catering, a…

Mina De La O | Digital vision | Getty Images Dr. Anand Shah is an oncologist and former FDA Assistant Commissioner and former Chief Medical Officer of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation. He is also an advisor to Morgan Stanley. Navigating public and commercial health insurance to cover innovative medical products can be…