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Having expanded its Covid-19 testing lab, Mount Sinai is gunning for a contract that would provide testing services to the city's schools, it announced Tuesday. Earlier this year the health system established the Mount Sinai Covid Lab with Hell's Kitchen–based Pershing Square Foundation, a…

Mount Sinai Seeks to Expand School Virus Testing Program The health system, which is preparing to open a new laboratory that could process 100,000 tests a day, wants to take its program to public schools this fall. Students at KIPP Infinity Middle School in West Harlem with tubes for collecting saliva, part of a coronavirus testing pilot program. “It’s way better than just sticking a stick up your nose,” one student said.Credit...Mount Sinai Health System By Emily Anthes Every week, stude...

Coupang stocks face doubts as insiders seek divestments Posted : 2021-03-17 15:26 Updated : 2021-03-18 08:55 Coupangs logo is seen on an electronic signboard in New York, March 11. Courtesy of Coupang By Park Jae-hyuk Questions are rising among domestic retail investors over the valuation of Coupang stocks after the e-commerce firms majority shareholders and employees began to unload their shares within a week after its Wall Street debut. Korean retail investors snapped up $33.9 million wort...

Bill Ackman Gives Away $1.3 Billion in Coupang Stock After IPO Bloomberg 3/15/2021 Luke McGrath and Ben Stupples (Bloomberg) -- Bill Ackman gave away shares worth more than $1 billion of Coupang Inc., the e-commerce giant behind the biggest U.S. initial public offering since Uber Technologies Inc. © Bloomberg Pershing Square Capital Management LP Chief Executive Officer Bill Ackman Interview Bill Ackman The billionaire founder of Pershing Square Capital Management donated 2...

Coupang Investor Ackman Donates Shares to Charity The hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman is donating shares of Coupang, the "Amazon of South Korea,” to various charities days after its stock exchange debut. Author: Mar 15, 2021 2:50 PM EDT The hedge fund investor Bill Ackman has donated his stake in the South Korea e-commerce company Coupang  ( The founder of Pershing Square Capital Management tweeted on Monday that he will split his 26.5 million shares, valued at $1.36 billion, among three e...

Northwell Health and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory open virtual COVID-19 clinical trial for non-hospitalized patients By Staff 2 months ago An outpatient, digital, randomized clinical trial will look at the safety and efficacy of famotidine (PEPCID) to treat mild to moderate Covid-19 MANHASSET, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are recruiting patients in a fully virtual, in-home, randomized, double-blind, placebo-co...

Mercury Mercury’s lobbying and public affairs firm, which is headed by Michael McKeon, boasts more than 30 media relations professionals in its New York office. The growing media relations team is led by former Bloomberg spokesperson John Gallagher, managing director and former National Action Network communications lead Rachel Noerdlinger, former Fox News producer Dan Bank and former Associated Press chief White House correspondent Ben Feller. Mercury, which represents a wide variety of clie...

Premieres Tuesday, December 22 on PBS   PBS will present the broadcast premiere of Frederick Wiseman’s CITY HALL on Tuesday, December 22, 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.  The film will also stream simultaneously on PBS.org and the PBS Video App. The 45 th film from Wiseman, “City Hall” immerses audiences in the municipality of his hometown of Boston to illustrate a government taking care of its diverse citizens. Through his filmmaking, audiences come to realize how city government touches upon alm...

Order Reprints Print Article The exterior of Portola del Sol, a complex Turner Impact Capitals multifamily fund owns in Las Vegas. Turner Impact Capital Turner Impact Capital has closed its second affordable workforce housing fund at US$357 million, including injections of capital from the foundations of NBA star Chris Paul and activist investor Bill Ackman. By leveraging those dollars, the Turner Multifamily Impact Fund, one of the real estate firm’s private-equity vehi...