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Bloomberg Hospitals are going into overdrive in the final hours before they receive the first US shipments of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine, ensuring they are ready for the final payoff from months of planning. “It’s very exciting,” Fran Hixson, director of clinical quality at Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy Health, said in an interview. “We’ve learned along the way ...

Bloomberg Pfizer Inc gained emergency US authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine, completing an unprecedented scientific sprint that could eventually help bring an end to a pandemic that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to authorise use of Pfizer and partner BioNTech SE’s vaccine will now set in motion a complicated immunisation drive that will ...

Bloomberg Nestle SA is jumping into the fake-meat business in China, seeking to revive weakening sales there by grabbing market share in the nation. The Swiss company introduced a range of plant-based meat alternatives in China under its Harvest Gourmet brand. Six options including kung pao chicken and braised meatballs will be available later this month on Alibaba Group Holding ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s government proposed a law that would give it the power to close stores in response to a worsening pandemic. The bill, which would allow the minority coalition to cut shops’ opening hours and limit footfall, is due to take effect in March if it makes it through the consultation process, Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren ...

Bloomberg The vast majority of the world’s largest transport companies, including General Motors (GM), Ford Motor and British Airways owner IAG, are taking insufficient action to limit global warming to within 2 degrees Celsius, according to a report backed by money managers overseeing about $22.8 trillion. Only 18% of airline, car and shipping companies have set carbon-reduction plans in line ...

Bloomberg UK freight trains are being forced to leave the country’s biggest container port without a full load, in the latest sign that stockpiling to prepare for Britain’s break with the European Union is disrupting supply chains already strained by the coronavirus outbreak. Some trains normally packed with everything from phones to the latest fashions are departing Felixstowe east of ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will head to Brussels within days for urgent talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, amid growing fears on both sides that Brexit trade talks will fail. The two agreed to meet after they concluded a deal remained far off, despite frantic attempts by their negotiators to break the deadlock as time ...

Bloomberg States including New York and Nevada used outdated federal estimates showing many more doses of Pfizer Inc’s vaccine would be available as they planned for the initial inflow of shots, said a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services. The estimates given to states in October for planning purposes said there could be 20 million doses ...

Bloomberg France is poised to miss a coronavirus goal set by President Emmanuel Macron as a condition for lifting the country’s lockdown next week, with daily new Covid-19 cases holding at more than twice the targeted level. The government is worried about the pandemic indicators, and is mulling alternatives to a planned end of stay-at-home measures on December 15, Liberation ...

Bloomberg Nokia Oyj is leading a group of companies and universities in a European Union funded wireless project called Hexa-X to help jump-start a new generation of mobile technology that’s already being called 6G. The group includes wireless gearmaking-peer Ericsson AB, mobile carriers Orange SA and Telefonica SA, and technology companies including Intel Corp. and Siemens AG. They’re joined by ...