World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the pandemic is far from over even with high vaccination rates, CNBC reported. His remarks came days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said people could go without masks in many places...
A coronavirus strain first spotted in India was classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a “variant of concern,” and preliminary studies have shown it may be more transmissible than some other variants, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday (May 10). The new strain...
Come visit New York City. You can see the Statue of Liberty, stroll through Central Park…and maybe get vaccinated against COVID-19. As the Associated Press reported Friday, the city hopes to offer COVID shots to tourists using vaccination vans in Times Square and at other...
Event ticket reseller StubHub has reversed its no-refunds policy and will pay back some customers in cash for events canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported. To the chagrin of ticketholders, StubHub instituted a no-refunds policy in March 2020, just as the...
While SARS-CoV-2 has stolen most of the headlines for the past year, there’s another bug that’s beginning to spread amongst Americans: the travel bug. According to a PYMNTS study, over 40 percent of U.S. residents say they would like to do more international travel, and...
One month ago, just 12 percent of the country had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. On Tuesday (April 13), NPR reported that the percentage has climbed to 22.3 percent, indicating that the vaccine rollout is certainly chugging along. However, the joint announcement from the FDA...
Three heavy hitters in different verticals have announced a program aimed at increasing access to vaccines. On Monday (April 12), Walgreens, Uber and PayPal stated that they had donated a combined total of $11 million to the Vaccine Access Fund, which is to be used...
Uber, PayPal and Walgreens have launched a coalition to help people without transportation connect to COVID-19 vaccines, the companies announced Monday (April 12) in a press release. The three firms are together seeding the Vaccine Access Fund with $11 million to help people in underserved...
June 15 is the set date for California to reopen — as long as there are enough COVID-19 vaccines, CNBC reported. Gov. Gavin Newsom intends for anyone who wants a vaccine to have one by that time, according to CNBC. “With more than 20 million...
