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Had Covid At Christmas? You Could Get It Again Now
(Bloomberg) — As a stealth wave of Covid makes its way across the U.S., those who have so far evaded…
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Modi Faces a Dilemma: Keep Indian Voters Happy or Feed the World
(Bloomberg) — A growing food security threat is set to push Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a conundrum: continue…
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Under Scrutiny, Some Telehealth Firms Are Rethinking ADHD Drugs
(Bloomberg) — The largest online mental health startup has tightened its prescription practices after criticism by medical professionals that its…
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Overturning Roe Threatens Women’s Health in So Many Ways
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A shock wave went through the U.S. on Monday evening when Politico published what appeared to be a legitimate…
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Fetal Viability and the Fate of Abortion Laws in U.S.
(Bloomberg) — The concept of “fetal viability” is at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that could undercut…
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The 10 Best Muscle-Building Workout Classes in NYC Right Now
(Bloomberg) — Editor’s note: Now that vaccination and mask mandates have been lifted in New York, we are testing a variety of…
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India Faces Record Heat Waves: ‘The Only Reason Is Global Warming’
The South Asian nation is bracing for temperatures to rise to a record high, according to Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, head of…
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How One Rogue Exec Thrust Levi’s Into the Culture Wars
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — In March 2020, Jennifer Sey found herself trapped at home with a husband, four children, a dining…
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Outpouring of Resentment on Chinese Social Media Is Overwhelming Censors
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — In the early hours of April 14, the Chinese Communist Party’s social media strategy went off the…
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Obesity Drug Helps Patients Lose About 20% of Weight, Lilly Says
(Bloomberg) — Eli Lilly & Co.’s obesity drug tirzepatide helped patients on the highest tested dose shed about 21% of…
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What’s the Mysterious Liver Disease Hurting Children?: QuickTake
(Bloomberg) — An outbreak of acute hepatitis — an inflammation of the liver — in children has killed at least…
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Covid Labor Costs Haunt U.S. Hospitals Even After Cases Decline
(Bloomberg) — Hospitals are starting to emerge from the worst of Covid-19, but one consequence has persisted: They still have…
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China’s Biggest Covid Failure Is Not Deploying an mRNA Vaccine
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Weeks into a Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai that brought China’s financial hub to a standstill, the government…
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Singapore Finally Gets Its Covid ‘Happy Day’
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Singapore is shedding key pieces of its pandemic armor with relative alacrity. While officials have long been…
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How Companies Stack the Deck for CEO Bonuses, Even in Down Years
(Bloomberg Law) — Discovery Inc.’s earnings fell nearly 20% last year by some measures, but the entertainment company’s CEO still…
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Can Brazil Find an Answer for Fake News?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the…
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Alzheimer’s Trials Exclude Black Patients at ‘Astonishing’ Rate
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Black people are about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as White people, but for years…
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Mystery Liver Disease in Children Spurs Urgent Investigation
(Bloomberg) — One child has died and more than a dozen have undergone liver transplants as a result of a…
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NYC Covid Cases Are Starting to Drop in Hopeful Sign for Latest Wave
Brownstein, Benjamin Rader and a team of others at Boston Children’s and Momentive AI have been collecting data about testing…
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As At-Home Rapid Tests Replace PCRs, We Need Better Guidance
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Rapid antigen tests have been among the tools many public health experts and politicians have to ease…
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U.S. Environmental and Health Rules Pay for Themselves—and Then Some
On Monday, a Florida judge overturned the federal mask mandate on public transportation. Although the Biden administration may appeal the ruling, the Transportation…
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What It’s Like to Visit San Francisco Now
(Bloomberg) — Sarah Holder is a CityLab reporter based in Bloomberg’s San Francisco bureau At tables overlooking the San Francisco…
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SoftBank Robotics Invests in Hong Kong Startup Avalon SteriTech
(Bloomberg) — SoftBank Group Corp.’s robotics arm has agreed to buy a minority stake in cleaning technology startup Avalon SteriTech…
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King of the ‘Lunatics’ Becomes Bitcoin’s Most-Watched Whale
(Bloomberg) — Back in 2016, when Do Kwon was just a little-known startup founder with grand ambitions of bringing free internet…
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Workers Are Getting Angry About Companies Ending Vaccine Mandates
(Bloomberg) — It’s not just JPMorgan Chase & Co. that’s hiring unvaccinated workers again. Nearly a third of employers who…
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Methane Leaks Make LNG-Powered Ships Dirtier Than Other Vessels
(Bloomberg) — Methane leaks from ships using liquefied natural gas as fuel make most of the vessels dirtier than ones…
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U.S. Bond Market Wipeout Hands Windfall to Brazilian Hedge Funds
(Bloomberg) — Brazilian traders know inflation. After decades of dealing with wild bouts of it, they consider themselves experts on…
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Whistle-Blowers Say Health Insurers Are Scamming Medicare to Make Billions
(Bloomberg) — Teresa Ross had been raising objections at work for months when her bosses brought in a psychologist hoping to…
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How to Break Out From the Great Stagnation
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The last three years have been so relentlessly dismal — a global pandemic followed by the invasion of…
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Covid Could Be Surging in the U.S. Right Now and We Might Not Even Know It
In New Jersey, for example, Stacy Flanagan, the director of health and human services for Jersey City, said that in…
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Ukraine Update: ‘Stand Up’ Campaign Raises $11 Billion for Aid
(Bloomberg) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Russia…
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In Singapore, Travel Is On and Masks Are Off
(Bloomberg Opinion) — About nine months after the Singapore government committed to living with Covid-19, travel is opening up, restrictions on…
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Health Care Stocks Have Record Week as Investors Run for Safety
(Bloomberg) — Investors rushing to snap up safe bets with reliable revenue streams amid global volatility propelled health-care stocks to…
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Are Second Covid Booster Shots Effective? What Experts Know So Far
(Bloomberg) — Everyone agrees that more coronavirus variants are likely. But how much the virus will evolve and how long…
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Pfizer to Pay up to $525 Million for Lung-Focused Biotech
(Bloomberg) — Pfizer Inc. agreed to buy respiratory antiviral developer ReViral Ltd. for as much as $525 million, the Covid-19…
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A Key Drug in Fighting Covid Is Now at Risk
(Bloomberg) — Monoclonal antibodies were one of the earliest and most effective drugs for fighting Covid-19. Continued production of them…
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Macron Leans on Business Confidence to Bolster White-Collar Vote
(Bloomberg) — Emmanuel Macron has kept a firm hand on corporate France in five years as president, prioritizing politics over…
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Caring for U.S. Victims of Gun Violence Costs $2.5 Billion in the Year After Shooting
(Bloomberg) — Costs of caring for U.S. gunshot survivors come to about $2.5 billion in the first year after their…
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Shanghai Shifts Lockdown; Singapore Border: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Shanghai started part two of its phased lockdown on Friday, confining some 16 million people living in the…
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Viant Explores Options Including Sale That Might Fetch Around $3 Billion
(Bloomberg) — Medical device maker Viant is exploring strategic options including a potential sale that could value it at $2…
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Shanghai Shifts Lockdown to Western Half of City: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Shanghai is lifting its lockdown of the eastern half of the city of 25 million residents on Friday,…
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Why Supply Chains Are Entering Third Year of Chaos: QuickTake
For two years, the pandemic threw the vital but usually invisible world of logistics into a tailspin, creating shortages of…
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Biden Administration to Allow ‘X’ Gender Marker on U.S. Passports
(Bloomberg) — Americans will soon be able to designate their gender with an “X” on passports and by the fall, transgender…
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U.S. May Ease Immigration; Shanghai Signals Shift: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — U.S. President Joe Biden, who received his second booster shot on Wednesday, is expected to soon lift a…
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U.S. May Lift Immigration Curbs; H.K. Flight Crews: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — U.S. President Joe Biden, who received his second booster shot on Wednesday, is expected to soon lift a…
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Egg Empires Are Coming as Bird Flu, Cage-Free Rules Drive Up Farm Costs
(Bloomberg) — It’s becoming too expensive for some farmers to produce eggs as costs soar due to everything from bird flu to cage-free…
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How About We Keep Wearing Masks on Trains and Subways Forever?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — One morning last week a young man in a light-blue sport coat with AirPods in his ears and…
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Never Had Covid? You May Hold Key To Beating the Virus
It may be hard to believe that at this stage of the pandemic so many people have still never gotten sick.…
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Shanghai Residents Confined to Home; U.K. Fines: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Shanghai boosted lockdown restrictions for people in the eastern half of the city as local Covid infections jumped…
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The Best Way to De-Stress Workers? Scrap Meetings
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — It’s a common refrain: Employees are a company’s most valuable asset. More specifically, it’s their cortexes, the…
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