Health & Science

“This coronavirus has just been very difficult for us because we don’t really know when it’s going to end,” Acadian Companies CEO Richard Zuschlag told CNBC.

San Francisco Bay Area health officials announced on Friday that they would implement California’s new stay-at-home order early.

Children and young teens could get a Covid-19 vaccine in the second half of next year, an advisor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

“Squawk Box” co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin and CNBC bond maven Rick Santelli engaged in a heated debate Friday over coronavirus restrictions.

World Health Organization officials on Friday warned that recent data suggests people who were once infected with the coronavirus could be infected again.

“I felt like somebody was taking a sledgehammer to my back,” Tom Farley, now a dealmaker, told CNBC on Friday.

Fnatic has set up a “High Performance Unit” to assess how things like lack of sleep impact its gamers, who compete in esports competitions with big prize money.

The former FDA chief explains why he is “hopeful” there will be adequate vaccine supply in 2021 and why it is important that patients take both doses.

That’s nearly 9% lower than what a Refinitiv Eikon poll is predicting. A survey of 36 analysts sees Brent crude to be around $49.35 next year.

“We’re ready and anxious to get started” distributing a Covid vaccine, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen told CNBC.

The Wall Street Journal, citing a person directly involved in the development, said some early batches of the raw materials needed for the vaccine failed to meet standards.

The virtual meeting is a major step toward coordination between the Biden transition’s Covid team and officials leading the government’s pandemic response.

IBM analysts on Thursday said they discovered fraudulent emails impersonating a Chinese business executive targeting global Covid-19 vaccine supply chains.

Facebook said Thursday that it will start removing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines as countries around the world prepare to start rolling them out.

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, said 450,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 before February.

The U.K. was the first country in the world to approve Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for widespread use. In a way, that was the easy part.

JD Health, the health-care unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, is gearing up for a Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) on Dec. 8.

The trial is scheduled to begin March 9, 2021 after being delayed due to the pandemic.

The U.K.’s decision to grant emergency approval to Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine will likely lead other countries to quickly follow suit, one economist said.

“Unfortunately, Rhode Island is headed in the wrong direction,” Lifespan CEO Dr. Timothy Babineau told CNBC.