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Pfizer coronavirus vaccine revenue is projected to hit $26 billion in 2021 with production surge
A man receives a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at the Belgrade Fair in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 13. (Marko Djurica/Reuters) Drug giant says it made $3.5 billion in global sales of its coronavirus shot in the first quarter of 2021 and expects sales to rise throughout the year By Christopher Rowland Business of Health Care Reporter ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/business...
Big three drug distributors blame doctors, regulators in trial over opioid epidemic
May 3, 20216:58 PM EDT (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/drug-distributors-face-off-against-west-virginia-billion-dollar-opioid-trial-2021-05-03/) The three largest U.S. drug distributors, facing their first trial over claims that they fueled the opioid crisis, said responsibility for ballooning painkiller sales lies with doctors, drugmakers and regulators. AmerisourceBe...
Bill Gates Becomes the Largest Farmland Owner in the United States:
Paul Best/Getty Bill Gates Ashley Boucher January 15, 2021 Yahoo Finance (https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/finance/news/bill-gates-becomes-largest-farmland-220106087.html ) Bill Gates now owns the most farmland of anyone in the United States, according to a recent report from The Land Report. The outlet reported this week that Gates, 65, owns 268,984 acres of land combined across 19 states. Of that nu...
Pfizer pays record fine for illegal promotions
The Associated Press · Posted: Sep 02, 2009 ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/pfizer-pays-record-fine-for-illegal-promotions-1.789220 ) Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3-billion US civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions. Announcing the settlement Wednesday, the Justice Department said that it included the largest criminal fine...
Blind’ France bears responsibility on Rwanda genocide, historical commission reports
Publié le : 26/03/2021 France 24 (https://www.france24.com/fr/france/20210326-rwanda-un-rapport-sur-le-r%C3%B4le-de-la-france-dans-le-g%C3%A9nocide-des-tutsi-attendu-%C3%A0-l-%C3%A9lys%C3%A9e) Skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 ge...
Even with pretax profits, many big companies pay zero US tax
The Associated Press FILE – In this April 13, 2014 file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. More than 50 of the largest U.S. companies paid nothing in federal income taxes last year, even though they reported big pretax profits as a group. That’s according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a group that believes the tax ...
For this Amazon van driver, AI surveillance was the final straw
by Avi Asher-Schapiro | @AASchapiro | Thomson Reuters Foundation Friday, 19 March 2021 12:02 GMT (https://news.trust.org/item/20210319120214-n93hk/?fbclid=IwAR19hxiueSRjFazxoiYfdDU1afKo1o1odNJ7YQJnUocTqHDPT-SIXen8JWo) For Vic, an Amazon driver since 2019, the company’s decision to install a four-lens, AI-powered camera in his van was the final indignity. This month, he quit *Amazon is...