The health-care system is still seeing lower rates of diagnoses for certain conditions after the coronavirus pandemic kept non-Covid patients away from the hospital early on, Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan told CNBC on Wednesday. “I think the signals that were sent that ultimately asked patients to stay away from the emergency room, stay away from hospitals, sent…

In this photo illustration a Johnson & Johnson logo is seen in front of a medical syringe and a vial with coronavirus vaccine. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday it expects to sell $2.5 billion of its Covid-19 vaccine this year, even as concerns mount over…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO headquaters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images The world is in the early stages of another wave of Covid-19 infections and death, World…

Students cheer on a terrasse of a cafe in Amsterdam on June 25, 2021 when the Netherlands eased Covid-19 restrictions. PAUL BERGEN | AFP | Getty Images Rule-breaking in cafes and bars in the Netherlands is a persistent problem that the hospitality industry must deal with, the country’s prime minister said as the nation battles…

[The stream is slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Top U.S. health officials are scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic that’s infected more than 191…

A medical worker receives the Covid-19 vaccine at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University on April 7, 2021 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. Southern Visual | Visual China Group | Getty Images A federal judge ruled Sunday that Indiana University can require its students to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in the first…

Passengers board an American Airlines flight at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia on April 11, 2021. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The demand for travel has risen sharply since spring. Delta and American both saw positive outlook thanks to a jump booking last week. The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly…

In more and more US states with low vaccination rates, Covid cases are rising, exposing residents to the risk of “unnecessary” infections, hospitalizations and possibly death as the Delta variant rips across the country, according to US health officials. “After several weeks of falling case numbers followed by a long plateau, we are now seeing…

A pedestrian walks past Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Monday, June 7, 2021. Adam Glanzman | Bloomberg | Getty Images Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Janet Woodcock, on Wednesday, turned down a journalist’s questions about the controversial approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. During an interview at STAT’s Breakthrough…

Here are the top news, trends, and analysis investors need to start their trading day: 1. Dow will open lower before day 2 of Powell’s testimony Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Dow futures fell 150 points Thursday, a day after the S&P 500 hit an all-time high but…