A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 and a United Airlines A320 Airbus approaching San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco. Louis Ribbon | Reuters According to United Airlines, the jobs of around 14,000 employees will be at risk if a second round of federal aid expires this spring. This is the latest sign of the industry struggling…

SINGAPORE – The annual special meeting of the World Economic Forum will only be held in May if it can be held in a safe manner, Singapore’s Minister of Commerce and Industry said on Friday. That’s why vaccines, testing, and contact tracing will come into play. “Our own working assumption at the World Economic Forum…

A beneficiary will be vaccinated by medical staff on January 16, 2021 in Pune, India, during a vaccination campaign against Covid-19 across India at Aundh District Hospital. Pratham Gokhale | Hindustan Times | Getty Images SINGAPORE – With the mass vaccination campaigns against Covid-19 going on around the world, a gap is emerging between rich…

A view of a patient being rolled out of a nursing home in Flushing Queens New York USA during the coronavirus pandemic on April 22, 2020. John Nacion | NurPhoto | Getty Images The New York Department of Health reported Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes by up to 50%, according to a new report released…

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice praised the success of distributing coronavirus vaccines in his state, claiming that if the mountain state had the “Valentine’s Day doses,” everyone in that state, 65 years of age and older, would be vaccinated. West Virginia has spent the past three weeks as the number one or number two state…

Brendan Kennedy, CEO of medical cannabis producer Tilray, poses in a greenhouse of the Canadian company’s European production site in Cantanhede on April 24, 2018. Patricia De Melo Moreira | AFP | Getty Images Brendan Kennedy, CEO of Canadian cannabis company Tilray, is optimistic that the US will take steps to federally legalize marijuana in…

Here are the top news, trends, and analysis investors need to get their trading day started: 1. Futures show on Dow, Nasdaq falls after profit Traders work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Dow futures fell 300 points on Wednesday. With earnings again a focus on Wall Street, Dow stocks…

Mike Roman, chairman and CEO of 3M, said Tuesday the industrial giant expects demand for its N95 respirators to be robust through 2021, even as Covid vaccine delivery raises hopes that the intensity the pandemic is gradually subsiding. The medical masks are considered the best option to protect against infection and have been in need…

Paramedics work in an ambulance parked outside the Royal London Hospital in east London on January 21, 2021. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP | Getty Images LONDON – The official UK death toll from the coronavirus pandemic hit 100,000 on Tuesday. That was the grim milestone reached as a recent surge in infections continued to put…

[The stream is slated to start at 06:00 ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Now that big pharmaceutical companies develop effective coronavirus vaccines, the next big challenge is getting them to as many people as possible. For example, the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech must…