President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s effort to distribute and administer Covid vaccine shots, saying that the administration has failed to meet its own goals. “The Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind,” he said at a news briefing. “As I long feared …
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With only a few days to go, the United States will likely fall short of its goal to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the year’s end as the nation embarks on what will be a historic campaign to inoculate hundreds of millions of people against the coronavirus by the middle …
Read More »Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q2 2021 earnings beat, sales fall short
Customers arrive at an Olive Garden location in San Antonio, Texas. Callaghan O’Hare | Bloomberg | Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Friday reported quarterly revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations as another wave of pandemic-related dining restrictions weighed on its same-store sales. For next quarter, typically its best of the …
Read More »Shares of Penumbra tank after short seller releases critical report
Shares of Penumbra slid more than 12% on Tuesday after short-seller Quintessential Capital Management released a critical report on the California-based medical devices maker. Quintessential Capital has a short position in Penumbra, meaning it is betting that the stock will go down. The firm first began to target Penumbra last …
Read More »Wisconsin hospitals are short of staff as Covid slams the state
Hospitals across the University of Wisconsin health system are facing staffing crunches as the state gets slammed with a surge in coronavirus cases and front-line caregivers get infected. “We are short of staff all times, either because they have Covid or they have some other illness and we need to …
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