WASHINGTON — Companies are bracing for another round of potentially debilitating supply chain disruptions as China, home to about a third of global manufacturing, imposes sweeping lockdowns in an attempt […]
Coronavirus Omicron Variant
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Back to news homeA Quandary for New York Restaurants and Workers: What to Do About Omicron?
After Nikolas Vagenas, a bartender at Apotheke in Chinatown and Bar Meridian in Brooklyn, tested positive for the virus in mid-December, he tried to apply for unemployment benefits both over […]
When It Comes to Living With Covid, Businesses Are on Their Own
Companies looking for an official rule book on pandemic precautions will be disappointed. The Biden administration’s nationwide coronavirus vaccine mandate has been overturned. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Stock Market Faces Lingering Perils in 2022
In response to the coronavirus, the Fed created trillions of dollars out of thin air, Congress doled out trillions more, and the pandemic provided a tacit guarantee that interest rates […]
December Jobs Report: U.S. Added 199,000 Jobs
“We’re all sort of at the whims of these variants and surges in cases, and it’s hard to know when they might strike,” said Nick Bunker, director of economic research […]
Covid Treatments Including Paxlovid Are Rationed as Cases Spike
Drug makers say they are working as fast as possible to produce more treatments.The federal government did not immediately order supplies of the GlaxoSmithKline antibody when the F.D.A. authorized the […]
Flight disruptions continue with thousands more cancellations as Omicron thins airline crews.
The Omicron variant, which is now responsible for more than 70 percent of the new coronavirus cases in the United States, has already helped push daily case averages in the […]
Airlines Cancel Hundreds More Flights as Virus Scrambles Air Travel
Over 1,000 flights in the United States, and thousands more globally, were canceled Sunday as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus sidelined crews during one of the year’s busiest weekends […]
Bosses Have a New Headache: How Long Should Sick Workers Isolate?
Barbara Sibley’s four New York restaurants had already weathered the city’s initial Covid-19 wave, the prevaccine surge last winter and this summer’s Delta spike when last weekend it finally happened: […]
As Omicron Overshadows Christmas, Thousands of Flights Are Canceled
The setbacks were evident for travelers around the country. On Christmas Eve morning, mats, blankets and pillows lined the floors of the Twin Cities airport, where people had been forced […]