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Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance Fauci tells Americans to ‘hunker down’ this fall and winter: ‘It’s not going to be easy’ Coronavirus cases remain ‘unacceptably high’ as schools and restaurants reopen, and flu season approaches My fiancé wants me to give up my cushy six-figure …

The coronavirus pandemic has left homeowners and apartment renters in cities, suburbs and rural areas with many new challenges. Social distancing protocols and a fear of exposing family and friends to the coronavirus has turned us into a more cautious society.  That, and the excessive time we’ve spent in our …

The coronavirus pandemic has left homeowners and apartment renters in cities, suburbs and rural areas with many new challenges. Social distancing protocols and a fear of exposing family and friends to the coronavirus has turned us into a more cautious society.  That, and the excessive time we’ve spent in our …

As schools and colleges reopen across the country, scientists say social distancing remains a critical public-health response to COVID-19. New research released Thursday sheds more light on children who test positive for COVID-19, and the contagiousness of coronavirus. Children often remain asymptomatic or display very few symptoms, and the research …

Several drugmakers developing COVID-19 vaccines plan to issue a public pledge not to seek government approval until the shots have proven to be safe and effective, an unusual joint move among rivals that comes as they work to address concerns over a rush to mass vaccination. A draft of the …

As the U.S. government prepares to deploy a COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available, public-health experts are mulling which groups of people should get early doses. And some, including philanthropist Melinda Gates, have weighed a controversial idea: moving people of color, whose communities have been disproportionately stricken by the disease, …

More and more homeowners are tackling home improvement projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. August 2020 — Home and garden centers, along with building materials suppliers and hardware stores, have seen a year-over-year sales increase of 22.6 percent, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau report. Home improvement stores are leading in …

A lab technician uses a pipette dropper during the antigen quantification process of the coronavirus vaccine research at the Valneva SA laboratories in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. T Akos Stiller/Bloomberg News Pharmaceutical group Pfizer Inc. said its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, being developed jointly with BioNTech SE, was …

The stock market will be feeling the impact of COVID-19 for decades to come. That’s because the pandemic is causing the U.S. birth rate to fall. A report from the Brookings Institution, predicts between 300,000 and 500,000 fewer births in 2021, calling it the “Covid Baby Bust.” You have plenty …