Infectious disease experts have warned that the more widely the virus is spreading, the more opportunities it has to mutate into a more serious strain.
U.S. stock futures were relatively steady Tuesday, a day after the Dow and S&P 500 saw sharp declines in their first negative start to a year since 2016.
The coronavirus pandemic has sharpened the lens on a health-care spending gap in Africa's largest economy, and foreign investors are seeking to fill the void.
Apple's share increase took it well above a $2 trillion market value. In 2021, analysts and shareholders say iPhone sales and services are still the story.
The Providence Hospital System defied the country’s slow rollout trend and gave the first dose of the Covid vaccine to more than half of its 120,000 employees.
"We want to see more diversity in the workplace. We're committed to having 50% of our managers be women," VMware COO Sanjay Poonen told CNBC's Jim Cramer.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would propose a law that would make it a crime to sell or administer Covid-19 vaccines to people trying to skip in line.
A new variant of the coronavirus identified in South Africa is more of a risk than the mutation found in the U.K., according to Britain's health minister.
"You need to stockpile something," the former FDA chief told CNBC on Monday. "But putting away 50% of all the doses, I think, is denying more people access."