Dear Quentin, When my husband and his only (younger) brother were growing up, a childless neighbor was very kind to them and treated them as if they were her “nephews.” They even called her “Aunt Hilda.” They also treated her like family; my husband has visited her regularly over the …
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Oil futures headed lower on Tuesday, poised to post their first session loss of the month, as prices looked to halt a multi-session streak of gains and eased back from their highest levels in more than a year. “After losing momentum through much of January trading, the crude complex has …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. . iStock/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Dr. Rochelle Walensky as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a person familiar with the decision, bringing a respected infectiou- diseases expert to the helm of a …
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Thousands of college students are heading home this Thanksgiving amid a global pandemic. MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto In the months leading up to the fall, much ink was spilled — including in this publication — about colleges’ plans to bring students to campus for a semester amid a global pandemic. There’s …
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The head of the World Health Organization has praised a developing country for its success in handling the coronavirus pandemic on Friday and urged others to re-evaluate their approaches to health care: “ ‘Thailand is an excellent example that, with a whole-of-government, whole-of-society, comprehensive approach, this virus can be contained …
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The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 worldwide continued to head toward 30 million on Thursday, and the U.S. case tally climbed above 6.6 million, as President Donald Trump contradicted the head of the main U.S. public health agency to insist a vaccine would be ready …
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The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over,” according to the head of the World Health Organization, and the worst is still to come, in what was a grim assessment of the state of affairs some six months after the first cases were reported in China. “Six months …
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The era of coronavirus has already been hard on the American psyche, but the CEO of the world’s largest asset manager cautions that everyone should brace for even rougher days ahead, as the U.S. attempts to emerge from the worst public-health crisis in more than a century. BlackRock’s Chief Executive …
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