According to President Joe Biden, the COVID-19 vaccine should be available to anyone in the country by spring, Bloomberg reported. The target is ambitious given how the rollout has gone thus far, and Biden acknowledged that, saying it can only happen with massive hikes in...
For the first time in 37 years, the Super Bowl won’t be graced by a Budweiser ad as parent company Anheuser-Busch instead uses the money for COVID-19 vaccine awareness and access, CNBC reported. Budweiser will run its ad digitally in the week leading up to...
Google will kick in $150 million “to promote vaccine education and equitable distribution and make it easier to find locally relevant information, including when and where to get the vaccine,” the company announced in a Monday (Jan. 25) blog post. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve...
Some of the nation’s top executives have been reaching out to state and federal officials to offer their companies’ services to help speed the delivery and administration of COVID-19 vaccinations. In North Carolina, chief executives of companies such as Honeywell, Atrium Health and Tepper Sports...
At some point, though it may seem to be far away, air travel is going to resume. It may take a while. But businesspeople will want face to face meetings instead of Zoom. Parents will want to visit theme parks. Grandparents will want to visit...
Amazon said it is ready to help with the COVID-19 vaccination efforts of the Biden administration, according to a letter addressed to President Joe Biden from Amazon CEO of Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark obtained by PYMNTS. “As you begin your work leading the country out...
Apart from being Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021 is also an important date for an almost completely unconnected reason. It was one year ago today that the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the United States. Officially, the first case was...
Janet Yellen, who has been nominated by incoming President-elect Joe Biden to head up the Treasury Department, thinks the government should “act big” for its next COVID-19 relief package, Reuters writes. Biden recently rolled out his $1.9 trillion relief plan, including more direct payments for...
Sales of alcohol soared during the early weeks and months of the pandemic, but a wellness vibe seems to be taking hold as “mocktails,” once a meager category, experiences a major growth spurt, according to the Financial Times and other news outlets on Friday (Jan....
