Nurse Mary Ezzat administers a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot to Jessica M. at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA, on Thursday, August 19, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images Nearly 1 million Covid-19 vaccine booster shots have already been administered in the U.S. since health officials authorized administering […]
CVS Health said Thursday that it sees sales growth accelerating as it offers more services at drugstores and customers’ homes to make health care more affordable and convenient. Shares of the company rose 4.52% to close at $97.31 on Thursday. They touched a 52-week high of $97.77 earlier in the day. The drugstore chain and […]
Thailand’s Baiya Phytopharm wants to develop the country’s first plant-based Covid vaccine. The start-up, founded by Dr. Suthira Taychakhoonavudh and Dr. Waranyoo Phoolcharoen in 2018, has been working on a vaccine using the leaves of an Australian tobacco plant. Suthira, a 37-year-old lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, told CNBC’s “Managing Asia” that she and her team […]
