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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Uber has spent years and millions of dollars making sure its workers aren’t classified as such and insisting it’s not responsible for those people’s health care. Now the company is pushing for its “earners” — the word it uses to refer to its drivers and delivery people so as not to call them workers — to get priority access to the Covid-19 vaccine. It’s hardly alone in lobbying public health officials and states to put its people near the top of the list.

COVID: For some nurses, vaccine just the latest pandemic risk John Pacenti, Palm Beach Post © Bob Self, AP Registered Nurse Danielle Parker receives her COVID-19 vaccination Monday from Nurse Manager Vickie Perez at UF Health Jacksonville. © SEIU Maryln Hoilette, a nurse at Palms West Hospital, said that though some of her colleagues are reluctant to take the COVID-19 vaccine, she believes they will eventually come around. Few people know the ravages of COVID-19 like Marlyn Hoilette, a front-line nurse at Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee.  She has held the hand of pa...

Disney skeptics miss out on record rally during horrible year Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg News He sold all 153,875 of his Disney shares. “Even with social distancing, we couldn’t see how the parks were going to be doing well,” said Sather, president of the Sather Financial Group in Victoria, Texas. “Not when your profitability is predicated on having massive amounts of humans crammed into your theme parks.” Yet in one of the more surprising turnabouts in this COVID-19 crazy year, shares of the world’s largest entertainment company have hit new highs -- despite...

-0.75% BMO analyst Daniel Salmon, who lowered the rating on Disney stock from “outperform” to “market perform,” said streaming giant Netflix was his “top pick” in the space, despite Disney’s lengthy investor presentation Friday touting its rival Disney+ streaming service, which goosed the company’s stock last week. In a report titled “Now the Hard Part Begins,” Salmon said Monday that he has decided to “step to the sidelines” even as Disney+, which has garnered over 80 million subscribers since last fall, rolled out a souped-up slate of new shows for the next few ye...

Streaming War: Should You Buy Disney or Netflix Stock? Last Updated: December 15, 2020 The Walt Disney Company (DIS) stock lost 3.6% yesterday while Netflix (NFLX) gained 3.8% after BMO Capital Markets downgraded Disney and said that it likes Netflix better. Disney stock soared to a record high of $179.45 last week after it reported strong subscription numbers for its streaming service. Disney+ subscribers At the investor day last week, Disney said that Disney+ had 86.8 million subscribers as of 2 December. The subscriber base for the service has been growing steadily sinc...