Global banking giant HSBC Holdings PLC’s profit rose 62% in the second quarter from a year…
Tag: Outbreaks/Epidemics
Monkeypox Vaccine Demand Soars, and Just One Small Danish Company Makes It
A Copenhagen company worked for nearly two decades to develop a vaccine and only six governments…
U.S. Reaches $1.74 Billion Deal With Moderna for Updated Covid-19 Shots
The Biden administration said it would spend $1.74 billion to buy 66 million doses of Moderna…
Shell Posts Record Quarterly Profit on Soaring Energy Prices
LONDON—Shell PLC reported a second consecutive record quarterly profit as the oil major benefited from soaring…
China’s Wuhan Province Locks Down District With One Million People
HONG KONG—Wuhan, the central Chinese city that was the epicenter of the early Covid-19 outbreak, locked…
Traveling-Nurse Bubble Bursts
Making as much as $10,000 weekly at the height of the pandemic, temporary nurses’ average salaries…