2024 COVID vaccine? Here’s why last year’s isn’t enough
This fall, prepare for the latest round of COVID vaccine Whac-a-Mole. Like the old arcade game, no matter how many shots we get, the enemy always pops back up. But …
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Fintech start-up rides AI surge to bring ‘inclusive’ finance to underbanked markets
A start-up is trying to catch the artificial intelligence (AI) surge to bring financial services to the underbanked population in developing markets. Meet Surfin-Meta, a Singapore-based fintech company that is …
European firms in southern China have less confidence than in any other region: survey
Sentiment among European companies in southern China is lower than elsewhere in the country, according to recent survey results, and analysts expect that the disparity is a direct result of …
4 years later, COVID remains a year-round threat. Here’s why this virus isn’t seasonal quite yet
This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can …
Ontario pulls plug on COVID-19 wastewater surveillance
Premier Doug Ford’s government is scrapping Ontario’s program for sampling wastewater to monitor the level of COVID-19 in the population. The program measures how much of the virus that causes COVID-19 is …
Colorado clinics, mental health providers seeing more uninsured people
Health clinics in Colorado are seeing more uninsured patients than they have since the Affordable Care Act took effect a decade ago, and some of their leaders believe the state …
Colorado doesn’t have enough mental health workers to meet demand
Colorado’s demand for people working in the mental health and addiction fields more than doubled during the pandemic, but the supply of actual workers hasn’t kept up — a situation …
12-year-old Bruhat Soma wins prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee title in a tiebreaker
Bruhat Soma was unbeatable before he arrived at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and neither the dictionary, nor his competitors, nor a lightning-round tiebreaker challenged him on the way to …
More Hongkongers buying policies from digital insurers, with lots of room left for growth, Bowtie boss says
Online sales of insurance policies have grown swiftly in Hong Kong since the introduction of digital insurers five years ago, but the city still lags behind overseas markets, according to …
China, Hong Kong stock markets are back in favour with global investors, HKEX CEO Bonnie Chan says
Former US secretary of state John Kerry and Thailand’s prime minister Srettha Thavisin are among the speakers at the Swiss investment bank’s two-day conference in Hong Kong that has drawn …