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The world faces an urgent need to vaccinate people, and waiving intellectual property rights doesn’t address that problem, according to Umang Vohra of Cipla.

Teenagers could help solve restaurants’ labor crunch, but the traditional summer job has fallen out of favor, even without a pandemic.

Just 46% of respondents said they were at least somewhat confident in the J&J shot, compared with 69% who said the same about Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines.

The rate of daily Covid infections is declining in 30 states and the District of Columbia and 1 in 3 Americans are now fully vaccinated.

Pfizer’s CEO said the waiver proposal “will unleash a scramble for the critical inputs we require in order to make a safe and effective vaccine.’

The new addition to the list could hasten efforts to control the spread of Covid, which has recently spread to record high infection levels in some countries.

Pfizer and BioNTech are the first companies to seek full regulatory approval of Covid vaccines in the U.S.

The number of Americans who prefer J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine declined after the U.S. paused its use to investigate safety, but 17% still say it’s their top choice.

U.S. stock futures dropped Tuesday after a strong start to the month of May.

“This is our duty — absolutely a duty — to be vaccinated,” Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told CNBC.

Meeting existing vaccine demand is no longer the main challenge, and states are employing strategies to address access and hesitancy barriers.

The rate of daily Covid vaccine shots in the U.S. is on the decline, but coronavirus cases are also dropping in most states.

The United States is reporting an average of 2.7 million daily vaccinations over the past week and more than half of adults have gotten a shot in most states.

Public preference for the AstraZeneca vaccine has fallen since reports potentially linking it to some cases of unusual blood clotting cases, a U.K. study shows.

“I think there’s a huge amount of evidence that the benefit greatly outweighs this risk” when it comes to the J&J Covid vaccine, Dr. Wilbur Chen told CNBC.

Average daily reported Covid vaccinations in the U.S. dipped below 3 million Thursday, after more than two weeks above that level.

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration had reached its goal of 200 million vaccine shots given during his first 100 days in office.

About 40% of Americans have received at least one shot and roughly 1 in 4 are fully vaccinated.

The U.S. is reporting 3 million daily shots given as President Biden’s deadline arrives for states to expand vaccine eligibility to all adults.

More than 129 million people ages 18 and older have received at least one vaccine shot, or 50.4% of the total adult population.