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Covid Surge in Oregon Shows U.S. Fight Against Pandemic Not Over Bloomberg 4/29/2021 Nic Querolo and Olga Kharif (Bloomberg) -- A Covid-19 surge in Oregon is sweeping through a partially vaccinated population, with steep rises in case rates among the young -- an indication that the U.S. may struggle with distinct outbreaks for months to come. The state reported 888 confirmed and presumed cases on Tuesday and a 6.5% test positivity rate, bringing the seven-day average to 832, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Those levels are still below peaks reached this winter, but...

Venezuela Politicizes Access to Vaccines Via State Loyalty Card Nicolle Yapur and Alex Vasquez, Bloomberg News People wait to receive a dose of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine at a clinic in Caracas, Venezuela, on Friday, April 9, 2021. Last week Venezuela received 50,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, as part of a bilateral agreement between Caracas and Moscow. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela is restricting Covid-19 shots to people with a state loyalty card, effectively excluding many government opponents from getting vacc...

Caribbean Countries Ask Wealthy Nations to Share Vaccine Supply Jim Wyss, Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- The 15-country Caribbean Community has asked wealthy nations to share their supply of Covid-19 vaccines, saying their economies won’t be able to recover from the pandemic without them. In a statement issued late Thursday, CARICOM said it was “dissatisfied and deeply concerned about the inequitable access to vaccines” it was facing. While members states belong to the World Health Organizations’ COVAX Facility, the only vaccines received so far have been 170,000 shots that...

Novartis in Talks to Join Pharma Industry’s Covid Vaccine Push Bloomberg 1/28/2021 Naomi Kresge and Francine Lacqua (Bloomberg) -- Novartis AG is in talks to help produce other companies’ coronavirus vaccines or treatments as the industry mobilizes to boost supply amid fights over access. Popular Searches The company is “in conversations with a range of different players,” Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan said on Bloomberg TV, with an agreement possible in the coming days or weeks. “We have production capacity across our network that we’re willing to make a...

Inside Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking By January 25, 2021 (Bloomberg) -- Everyone is fighting the same coronavirus, but about a year into the pandemic, quality of life and control of the pathogen’s spread look vastly different across the world. Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking scores the largest 53 economies on their success at containing the virus with the least amount of social and economic disruption. We considered many datasets, indicators and indexes produced by organizations around the globe and applied three fundamental criteria in whittling the list down to th...