Year of the meme stock: Hertz, Kodak, Nikola top list of 2020 highlights
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Year of the meme stock: Hertz, Kodak, Nikola top list of 2020 highlightsBy Cristin Flanagan, Esha Dey and Jennifer Bissell-Linsk, Bloomberg
Last Updated: Dec 27, 2020, 11:47 PM IST
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The wild swings reflected bets by individuals, many of them new to the market, who looked to brokerage apps like Robinhood Markets to pass the time during the pandemic, especially after cashing stimulus checks.
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Once called “more of a business plan than business” by a Wall Street analyst, electric-truck startup Nikola Corp. is emblematic of the speculative trading that sent EV stocks surging this year.
When the government decides who gets to live or die based on race. Wed Dec 23, 2020
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the CDC was too busy fighting racism to do its job. As the vaccine rolls out, the CDC decided to build the vaccine waiting list around affirmative action Who gets to live or die? Much like in Nazi Germany, it helps to be a member of the right race. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has announced that the priorities for distributing vaccines are to prevent death, preserve society, and help those facing disparities , and then maybe, increase the chance for everyone to enjoy health and well-being.
What is the Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan?
Volunteers wait to be administered the new Chinese-made vaccine for Covid-19 at a hospital in Islamabad. PHOTO: AFP
What is the Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan?
The need to address vaccine dissemination challenges and to undertake collective action is of utmost importance
According to the latest Covid-19 statistics released by the John Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Centre, global cases have exceeded with more than 1.68 million deaths being reported officially. This virus has left few unaffected: rising unemployment levels, rampant poverty and increasing destitution levels, not to mention the excruciating mental toll surviving this pandemic took, have revealed how vulnerable the global population is at the hands of this virus. According to Oxfam, nearly
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A group of South African scientists and researchers took the first steps in the elusive hunt for a vaccine in the first weeks that the Covid-19 virus started felling lives in the country in the same way it was doing in other parts of the world.
Our chase for a vaccine in a world changed by a virus represents humankind as an exquisite ecosystem, each person playing some part – not for glory or personal gain but because our very survival depends on it.
The behind-the-scenes work was completed by the first half of the year, so that by the middle of June scientists and researchers were ready with the public announcement that it was all systems go for clinical trials.
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