Twitter Opts for ‘Poison Pill’ to Repel Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter’s board of directors on Friday voted unanimously to use a tactic called a “poison pill” to fend off Elon Musk’s attempt to take over the company.In such a defensive tactic, all Twitter shareholders except Musk could buy more shares at a discoun…
Pfizer-BioNTech Say COVID-19 Booster Protects Kids 5-11 Against Omicron
U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German COVID-19 vaccine partner, BioNTech, announced Thursday recent trials show booster doses of its vaccine effectively protect healthy children ages 5 to 11 from the omicron variant of the coronavirus.In a …
FDA Authorizes First Breath Test for COVID-19 Infection
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued an emergency use authorization for what it said is the first device that can detect COVID-19 in breath samples.The InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, the…
WHO Warns Against Letting Guard Down on COVID-19
Latest reports put the global number of COVID-19 cases at 502 million, including 6.19 million deaths. The World Health Organization says that is the lowest number of COVID-19 deaths recorded since the early days of the pandemic more than two years ago….
Shanghai Releases More From Virus Observation Amid Lockdown
Shanghai released 6,000 more people from the central facilities where they were under medical observation to guard against the coronavirus, the government said Wednesday, though the lockdown of most of China’s largest city was continuing in its third w…
COVID Lockdowns in China Hit Its Trade Partners
Lockdowns of Chinese cities to contain the spread of COVID-19 are snarling imports and exports, according to economists. They say those hitches are slowly raising prices abroad while lowering demand in the world’s largest market for inbound merchandise…