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The coronavirus cycling boom has turned this Dutch bike brand into a global hit
Fortune - Ellen Proper
About a month ago, Taco Carlier noticed something unusual. A tool to measure the daily performance of the Dutch bicycle company he had founded was …
2 days ago
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Birth control gel approved as first no-hormone option in decades
Fortune - Bloomberg
A new birth control gel is the first non-hormonal contraceptive to win FDA approval in decades, bringing another option to the $5.4 billion …
3 days ago
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Arriving in the U.K.? Expect two weeks in quarantine—or face a massive fine
Fortune - Katherine Dunn
The U.K. will become the latest country to impose strict fines on travelers and returning citizens who fail to observe strict quarantine rules when …
3 days ago
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Hydroxychloroquine linked to deaths and heart risks in new COVID-19 study after Trump touted and claimed to be taking the
Fortune - John Lauerman
Subscribe to Outbreak, a daily roundup of stories on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global business, delivered free to your …
3 days ago
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Europe pushes for a green recovery as the Trump Administration weakens environmental protections
Fortune - Josh Priti
The dangerous added-effects of air pollution during the pandemic have emerged as the latest partisan flashpoint in Washington. Research shows …
3 days ago
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Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine expectations game
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
On Monday, stock futures soared on news of positive early data for Moderna's experimental coronavirus vaccine. And while, understandably, investors …
4 days ago
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The health care industry’s winners and losers in the midst of the pandemic
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
It isn’t exactly a secret that the American health care system is a messy hodgepodge of industries with often inscrutable—and …
4 days ago
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Tobacco giants are getting into the coronavirus vaccine race
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
British American Tobacco (BAT), the company that manufactures global cigarette brands such as Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Newport, and Camel cigarettes, …
4 days ago
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Social distancing in the skies, temperature checks on the ground: Welcome to the new era of air travel
Fortune - David Meyer
Flying hasn't been an option for many people during the coronavirus lockdowns of recent months, but the experience is increasingly back on travelers' …
4 days ago
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Tech Industry
Can snoring be cured? It’s surprisingly difficult
Fortune - Katherine Dunn
To hear James Fallon tell it, there’s one product that is improving relationships—and, ahem, intimacy—across America. It’s a snore guard, and if you …
4 days ago
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British pharma giant AstraZeneca get $1 billion from the U.S. to make coronavirus vaccine
Fortune - John Lauerman
AstraZeneca Plc received more than $1 billion in U.S. government funding for an experimental Covid-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford, a boost …
4 days ago
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Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases.
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Is the coronavirus mutating? China’s new COVID-19 outbreak is raising concerns
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4 days ago
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Where does the six-foot rule for social distancing come from?
Fortune - David Z. Morris
Subscribe to Outbreak, a daily roundup of stories on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global business, delivered free to your inbox. One of …
5 days ago
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How a company misappropriated Native American culture to sell health insurance
Fortune - Fred Schulte
Jill Goodridge was shopping for affordable health insurance when a friend told her about O’NA HealthCare, a low-cost alternative to commercial …
5 days ago
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Trump admits he’s taking the same anti-malaria drug that the FDA warns against
Fortune - Justin Sink
President Donald Trump said he is taking hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that he’s promoted as a treatment to combat coronavirus infection, …
6 days ago
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Coronavirus patients who seem to catch COVID-19 twice aren’t infectious 2nd time
Fortune - Jason Gale
Patients who test positive for the coronavirus weeks after recovering from Covid-19 probably aren’t capable of transmitting the infection, research …
6 days ago
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Moderna releases promising—but early—new coronavirus vaccine data
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
Moderna Therapeutics' first approved treatment may wind up being a coronavirus vaccine. The Cambridge, Mass., biotech announced positive early-stage …
May 18
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U.S. Economy
What businesses can learn from a coronavirus-tracking breakthrough
Fortune - Clifton Leaf
By mid-May Brazil was being ravaged by a brutal epidemic. COVID-19, which had already infected some 8% of the population, was beginning to swarm …
May 18
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How businesses should balance risk and opportunity during the coronavirus crisis
Fortune - Brian O'Keefe
Peter Schwartz has spent five decades studying the balance between risk and opportunity. As the head of scenario planning for oil giant Royal Dutch …
May 18
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‘They killed her’: Why are breast implants still putting millions of women at risk?
Fortune - Maria Aspan
Thirty-three years before her death, Paulette Parr visited her doctor for a popular and relatively routine procedure. It was 1986, and Parr was 35, …
May 18
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AstraZeneca aims for 30 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine by September
Fortune - Sara Marley
AstraZeneca Plc will make as many as 30 million doses of coronavirus vaccine available to the U.K. by September and has committed to delivering 100 …
May 18
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Business
The CEO who keeps animal pharm growing
Fortune - Anne Sraders
Subscribe to How To Reopen, our weekly newsletter on what it takes to reboot business in the midst of a pandemic. When Kristin Peck became CEO of …
May 16
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Finance
The coronavirus has now killed more Americans than the Vietnam War, Gulf War, Afghanistan War, and Iraq War combined
Fortune - Lance Lambert
The coronavirus has infected nearly 1.4 million Americans, and claimed the lives of 83,947 since outbreaks spread across the nation earlier this year. …
May 15
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To aid social distancing—and cut air pollution—London’s mayor declares stretches of the capital will be car-free
Fortune - Katherine Dunn
Traveling through central London—a bustling amalgamation of finance, tourism, culture and shopping, all threaded with winding, often narrow medieval …
May 15
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U.S. Economy
Will COVID-19 change how Big Pharma does clinical trials?
Fortune - Erika Fry
Subscribe to How To Reopen, our weekly newsletter on what it takes to reboot business in the midst of a pandemic. Sumathi Sivapalasingam, senior …
May 15
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Antibody testing’s chicken and egg problem
Fortune - Sy Mukherjee
Here in New York City, a free COVID-19 antibody testing program could reach up to 140,000 residents between now and June. That doubles the figure of …
May 14
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‘Unacceptable:’ A new France-U.S. spat erupts over Sanofi’s coronavirus vaccine plans
Fortune - Phil Serafino
Sanofi Chief Executive Officer Paul Hudson’s suggestion that the U.S. may get the French drugmaker’s coronavirus vaccine first sparked outrage in …
May 14
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Trump names 2 new heads of ‘Operation Warp Speed,’ the effort to develop coronavirus vaccine
Fortune - Jennifer Jacobs
President Donald Trump plans to name Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s vaccines division, and Gustave Perna, a four-star U.S. …
May 14
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How accurate are the coronavirus tests used by the White House? A new report is raising questions
Fortune - Michelle Fay Cortez
Subscribe to Outbreak, a daily roundup of stories on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global business, delivered free to your inbox. The …
May 13