While a world awash in a pandemic awaits a coronavirus vaccine, Gilead Sciences is bringing a treatment to market. Remdesivir is an experimental drug that may help Covid-19 patients recover more quickly — but it doesn’t immunise them. Its price tag is $600 for a series of six treatments for patients who live in developing countries where Gilead, to its ...

When New York City’s Covid-19 epidemic peaked in late March and early April, the city was reporting more than 5,000 new confirmed cases a day, and more than 60% of tests for the disease were coming back positive. In Arizona, which has a similar if somewhat smaller population (7.3 million versus 8.3 million), new cases are currently averaging about 3,000 ...

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc told flight attendants it has as many as 8,000 more of them than it needs, and said it would offer more leave programs and a voluntary separation package to try to minimise the need for furloughs. The airline also will reduce staffing on international and cross-country flights to the minimum required by federal regulations, plus ...