Subsidized COVID Testing, Treatments, and Vaccines May End Soon

Subsidized COVID Testing, Treatments, and Vaccines May End Soon

March 23, 2022 — The federal government this week will begin cutting back on the anti-COVID-19 antibody treatments it ships to states, and doctors will no longer get paid for providing COVID-19 care for the uninsured, as the nation runs out of money to buy crucial tests, treatments, and vaccines needed to keep the pandemic … Read more

Donald Trump Jr launches news aggregation app MxM News

Donald Trump Jr launches news aggregation app MxM News

If you can’t beat them, join them. After years joining his father in deriding the “lamestream media” as the “enemy of the people”, Donald Trump Jr has launched an app to aggregate news. Don Jr and co-founder Taylor Budowich, a spokesperson for the former president, hope that MxM News (the name refers to “minute by … Read more

Organs Donated by People Who Had COVID Are Safe

Organs Donated by People Who Had COVID Are Safe

WEDNESDAY, March 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For those waiting during the pandemic for a new kidney or liver, new research is reassuring: Organs from deceased donors who had COVID-19 did not cause infection in recipients and posed no risk to health care workers. In a study that began in September 2021, the Duke University … Read more

Rishi Sunak sets out UK’s Spring Budget amid high inflation

Rishi Sunak sets out UK’s Spring Budget amid high inflation

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak tabled the UK’s Spring Statement, or the country’s one of two annual fiscal statements, on Wednesday amid high inflation and price rises and announced measures such as a drop in the basic rate of income tax, a cut in fuel duty and doubling support for vulnerable households. The Indian-origin … Read more

ESG and impact investing: Dual drivers of sustainable development

ESG and impact investing: Dual drivers of sustainable development

The discourse has fortunately influenced the receptive global investor psyche. Today they seem increasingly interested in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) accountability of their funds. By Akanksha Sharma Episodes of unfretted institutional greed that rewrite the terms of wealth distribution, favouring the few, are not rare in modern economic history. The response has often oscillated … Read more