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Medical-testing firm Becton Dickinson says it’s investigating false-positive coronavirus test results reported at nursing homes around the US. The New Jersey-based company, also known as BD, said a “small number” of nursing homes are reporting multiple false-positive COVID-19 tests from its Veritor Plus machine, which can deliver results in 15 minutes. Roughly a dozen sites …
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Bill Gates says Pfizer has the best chance of seeking emergency approval for a coronavirus vaccine by next month even though he thinks such an aggressive timeline is unlikely. “The only vaccine that if everything went perfectly, might seek the emergency use license by the end of October, would be Pfizer,” the billionaire tech tycoon-turned-philanthropist …
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No institution in a poll by far-left CBS News is trusted less on the coronavirus than the national media. What must be especially demoralizing for the fake media is that despite months and months and months of the media spending billions of corporate dollars to undermine the public’s trust in President Trump on the issue of …
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New Yorkers tired of dining on sidewalks have a new alternative: eating gourmet meals on the balconies of unsold luxury apartments. A New York startup called Resident is selling fancy dinners hosted on luxury condominium balconies, rooftops and gardens. Tickets cost between $150 and $250 for a five- to seven-course tasting menu with wine pairings. …
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Lead by example, Mr. Mayor! Stephen Green, founder of the city’s largest commercial real estate company SL Green Realty Corp., exhorted Mayor Bill de Blasio to bring his staff back to the office to help jumpstart the city’s coronavirus recovery. “I believe he should bring back his staff and the city tenants first. At SL …
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Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t get it done. Neither did Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Now, New York’s leading business groups are asking President Donald Trump to back funding for transit agencies and city and state budgets as part of the stalled talks over the next coronavirus aid package. The letter comes as local leaders warn of …
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COVID-19 has caused another snag for Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly in their first film together. Production for the lovebirds’ “Midnight in the Switchgrass” was shut down again after two people involved in the project tested positive for for the illness, TMZ reported on Monday. The movie was previously shut down at the beginning …
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Town Sports International, the owner of New York Sports Clubs, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday after the coronavirus pandemic forced its gyms to close and caused revenue to dry up. The company’s assets and liabilities were in the range of $500 million to $1 billion, according to a court filing in the US …
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Amazon plans to hire another 100,000 workers in the US and Canada amid a coronavirus-fueled boom in its online sales, the company announced Monday. The e-commerce titan’s fourth big hiring spree this year will add full- and part-time jobs to its operations network “as we expand our footprint to better serve customers in communities where …
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Heroes and villains from the big screen — including “Star Wars” icon Mark Hamill and “Harry Potter” star Tom Felton — are masking up against COVID in a campaign called #HeroesWearMasks. “X-Men” producer Tom DeSanto is creating the campaign for the CDC Foundation, and told us, “We want to prevent that one kid getting sick …
Medical-testing firm Becton Dickinson says it’s investigating false-positive coronavirus test results reported at nursing homes around the US. The New Jersey-based company, also known as BD, said a “small number” of nursing homes are reporting multiple false-positive COVID-19 tests from its Veritor Plus machine, which can deliver results in 15 minutes. Roughly a dozen sites …
