Vaccination: Private hospitals sat on lakhs of doses even as BMC centres faced acute crunch

Vaccination: Private hospitals sat on lakhs of doses even as BMC centres faced acute crunch

Private hospitals have maintained that buying large stocks of vaccines proves cost effective, saves logistical challenges and allows better planning of the vaccination At a time when the state government and BMC-run vaccination centres were reeling under acute shortage of Coronavirus vaccines during the last week, private hospitals in capital city Mumbai and other cities … Read more

Year of the meme stock: Hertz, Kodak, Nikola top list of 2020 highlights

Year of the meme stock: Hertz, Kodak, Nikola top list of 2020 highlights

Vaccine developers, electric-vehicle startups and a bankrupt car-rental company captured the imagination of individual investors in 2020 as Reddit chat rooms touted the so-called meme stocks as the next big winners. “You saw an amazing amount of volume compared to normal and that came from the retail side,” said David Wagner, a portfolio manager at … Read more