Ohio has revealed the first big winners in its million-dollar vaccine lottery, which was introduced to boost vaccination rates in the state. The first of five weekly draws was conducted on Monday but the announcement was made Wednesday evening to allow time to confirm the eligibility of the winners. Abbigail Bugenske of Silverton, in the…
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Tesla has installed its 200,000th Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage product, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday. Tesla’s CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors during a first-quarter earnings call in April that Tesla is continuing to work through a “multi-quarter backlog on Powerwall,” suggesting that the volume of installations will continue to soar…
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Boris Johnson is coming under pressure from senior Conservatives, including his own father, to introduce a UK carbon border tax to protect British industry from cheap competition from polluting countries. Rishi Sunak, chancellor, has ordered work to be done on the tax, a levy on carbon emissions attributed to imported goods that are not carbon-taxed…
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The Biden administration delayed part of a Trump-era rule requiring them to include the discounts they offer to patients when calculating the “best price” for drugs under Medicaid’s drug rebate program, according to a proposed rule on Wednesday. Drugmakers were supposed to start reporting multiple best prices beginning Jan. 1, but CMS delayed the requirements…
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Uber has struck a landmark agreement with one of the UK’s largest trade unions, the first time that the Silicon Valley company has recognised a union of its ride-hailing drivers anywhere in the world. The GMB union will be able to represent tens of thousands of Uber drivers in the UK, giving them collective bargaining…
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Scientists in Germany claim to have cracked the cause of the rare blood clots linked to the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines and believe the jabs could be tweaked to stop the reaction happening altogether. Rolf Marschalek, a professor at Goethe university in Frankfurt who has been leading studies into the rare condition…
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The EU has demanded damages potentially amounting to billions of euros from AstraZeneca if the company fails to increase deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine by next month. The European Commission wants the drugmaker to pay penalties of €10 a dose a day if it does not supply 20m extra shots by the end of June,…
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Hi everyone. Kenji in Hong Kong here. We often lead #techAsia with news related to greater China but our Big Story this week is from Myanmar. Nikkei Asia exposed the censorship regime of the junta, which toppled a democratically elected government in February. Twitter is one company that has been targeted, not only in Myanmar…
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Two key congressional committee chairs announced Wednesday they will develop a public option proposal, marking a key development in the fight over healthcare reform. House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate health committee, requested comments from the public Wednesday on how a public…
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Ford said on Wednesday that it would boost spending on electric vehicles to more than $30bn and that 40 per cent of the vehicles it sold worldwide in nine years would be electric. The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker had already accelerated spending on electric and autonomous vehicles from $11.5bn by the end of 2022 to $29bn…
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