The idea of becoming a grandparent is emotional for Bill Gates to even write about. “I started looking at the world through a new lens recently — when my older daughter gave me the incredible news that I’ll become a grandfather next year,” Gates wrote […]
Year: 2022
Jim Cramer’s Investing Club meeting Monday: Industrials, buying tech, Eli Lilly
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. We like industrials Believing in Amazon Still bullish on LLY 1. We like industrials Wall Street was lower Monday, especially […]
Drug overdose deaths among teenagers surged during the pandemic driven by illicit fentanyl
Drug overdose deaths among adolescents surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, driven overwhelmingly by illicit fentanyl, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monthly drug overdose deaths nearly tripled among adolescents ages 10 to 19 during the first two years of […]
White House’s Covid coordinator urges people to get vaccinated ahead of holidays
As Covid and flu hospitalizations have climbed in the weeks since Thanksgiving, White House’s Covid-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said families will be safer at upcoming holiday gatherings if they get their updated vaccines. This year, hospitals are facing the simultaneous threat of Covid, flu and […]
Omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors from being hospitalized with Covid, CDC says
WATCH LIVE The latest omicron boosters are 84% effective at keeping seniors 65 and older from being hospitalized with Covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. And seniors who received the omicron […]
We’re adding to an oil stock and see 3 other names as good buys in a down market
We’re buying 150 shares of Halliburton (HAL) at roughly $35.73 each. Following Friday’s trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 2,375 shares of HAL, increasing its weighting in the portfolio to about 3.04% from about 2.85%. Markets are once again in selloff mode Friday, dropping […]
How this millennial CEO steered the world’s largest vaccine maker during the pandemic
Adar Poonawalla became the CEO of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, when he was 30 years old. But that was not his first foray into the family business. “I started, you know, at the grassroot level. I worked in every department […]
Less than 50% of nursing home residents have received omicron booster ahead of expected winter Covid wave
Less than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the country’s most vulnerable populations to severe illness from Covid-19, have received an omicron booster ahead of an expected wave of infection this winter. The Biden administration has made increasing booster uptake among nursing home residents […]
Long Covid medical costs average $9,500 in first six months, as patients become ‘health-system wanderers’
There are a few considerations that can help manage the financial fallout from long Covid. “It’s so painful when you have an illness and all of a sudden you don’t have money coming in,” Carolyn McClanahan, a certified financial planner and medical doctor, told CNBC. […]
Growing obesity crisis in U.S. prompts CDC to expand body mass index charts for severely overweight kids
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released new body mass index charts for children in response to the growing obesity crisis in the U.S. The previous BMI chart for children ages 2 to 19, published in 2000, is based on data from […]