The Food and Drug Administration authorized Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for people with weakened immune systems, a highly anticipated move intended to shield some of the most vulnerable Americans from the highly contagious delta variant. “Today’s action allows doctors to boost immunity in certain immunocompromised individuals who need extra protection from COVID-19,” acting FDA Commissioner…

Here are the most important news, trends and analysis that investors need to start their trading day: 1. Stock futures slightly higher after S&P 500, Dow close at records Matteo Colombo | DigitalVision | Getty Images Stock futures were slightly higher Friday, one day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closed at…

SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci on Friday urged the American company to show “real leadership” with Covid vaccinations as the country battles a spate of infections linked to the highly contagious Delta variant. “This is a personal security and freedom problem. You know, I have the freedom to move my arm, but I don’t have the…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday that he expected the coronavirus to become an endemic virus in the US and other western countries after the recent surge in Delta variant infections settled. “We are going from a pandemic to a more endemic virus, at least here in the United States and probably in other…

A prisoner from the Bolivar County Correctional Facility receives a Covid-19 vaccination that was released on Jan. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Friday pleaded with residents to get vaccinated as the state scrambles to hire hundreds of temporary doctors, nurses and rescue workers. He has also requested ventilators from the…

Dr. Joseph Varon, right, and Jeffrey Ndove, left, perform a procedure for hypothermia treatment on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Christmas Eve at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 24, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura | Getty Images DALLAS — Hospitals in Texas are suspending elective procedures and turning to…

In recent weeks, new pockets of Covid-19 cases have surfaced in parts of mainland China as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads across the country. So far this month, locally transmitted cases reported in mainland China have risen to 878 – more than double the 390 cases recorded for the entire month of July, according…

Anjali Sundararaman, a student nurse at San Francisco State University, gives Cuixia Xu a dose of Moderna-COVID during a vaccination clinic at the Southeast Health Center in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. On Monday, February 24 19 vaccine. 8, 2021. Stephen Lam | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images…

A paramedic prepares doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine for patients at a walk-in COVID-19 clinic at a Buddhist temple in the Smithfield suburb of Sydney on Aug. 4, 2021. Saeed Khan | AFP | Getty Images A new study has provided further details on the “rare but devastating” blood clotting complications associated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca…

Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 taking off from LAX. PG | Getty Images Alaska Airlines announced Wednesday that it is considering making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for employees, according to a company memo that CNBC viewed. The policy change would make the Seattle-based airline the newest airline to require vaccines for its employees. On Friday, United Airlines…