Dry ice is poured into a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as it is prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich., Sunday Dec. 13. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
WASHINGTON (CN) Ramping up production, drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that they will supply the United States with an additional 100 million doses of its vaccine for Covid-19 by July of next year.
This announcement ups the total number of vaccines to be distributed to 200 million. Some 70 million of those doses would be delivered by June 30 with another 100 million delivered no later than July 31.
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BOXES containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan, Dec. 13. POOL VIA REUTERS
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YASMIRA P. MONER, a 34-year-old resident of Linamon town, Lanao del Norte in southern Philippines, is eager to get a coronavirus vaccine shot because of the hassle she has to go through every time she comes home from Iligan City, where she works as a university lecturer.
“I have to queue at the local health office to get a medical certificate,” she said by telephone. “Before that, I also need to get a village clearance. I’m worried that I might get the virus there.”
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Auburn: Auburn University’s nursing school is publishing a free book to tell the stories of some of its alumni and their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Titled “Auburn Nursing – Living the Creed During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” the book includes stories of Auburn-educated nurses who worked both in their hometowns and places including New York to care for COVID-19 patients. The stories show the difficulty of working in an overwhelming situation, said nursing dean Gregg Newschwander. “At Auburn, we often say, we make leaders,” he said in a statement. “In this book, you will see how true that is.” The university statement said the nursing school marked its 40th anniversary during the 2019-20 academic year, and stories began coming in about the work being done by Auburn alumni during the pandemic. The ann
Dec. 22, 2020 9:00 am ET
Chief financial officers at U.S. companies are optimistic the country’s economy as a whole and their businesses, in particular will recover in 2021 despite worries about potential tax rate changes and higher labor costs.
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Finance chiefs expect their companies’ revenue to rise by an average of 6.9% next year, up from a 0.3% increase forecast for 2020, according to a survey by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta. Wages, prices and employment levels also are forecast to increase, the survey of about 300 CFOs found.