Covid’s desperate race

Follow Us Get the newsletter The second year of the coronavirus pandemic is quickly being defined by a desperate race. Vaccination campaigns face the growing threat of variants as the pathogen tears through unprotected populations in India, Brazil and elsewhere. At some point, mutations may overwhelm the protection conferred by the current crop of vaccines, prolonging the global health catastrophe. The Bloomberg Covid Resilience Ranking reveals where variants pose the gravest threat right now, and where they do not. —David E. Rovella Bloomberg is tracking the progress of coronavirus vaccines while mapping the pandemic globally and across America.  Here are today's top stories    JPMorgan is preparing to offer a Bitcoin fund to wealthy clients, the latest sign that Wall Street is warming to the token after it soared in recent months. Tesla reported a seventh consecutive quarter of profit on strong demand for its top-selling Model 3 sedan. In a few weeks, billionaire co-founder Elon Musk will have a chance to bask in the limelight when he hosts Saturday Night Live. China's government has expanded its antitrust crackdown beyond Jack Ma's technology empire, launching an investigation into suspected monopolistic practices by food-delivery behemoth Meituan. Meituan messengers gather in 2019 at a morning team meeting before starting the day's deliveries. Photographer: Gilles Sabrié/Bloomberg The U.S. announced Monday it would send 60 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine abroad as Biden pledged to help India, now at the center of the pandemic with thousands dying daily (though its richer citizens are flying away to safety). The announcement came as Biden faces growing pressure to share the U.S. stockpile of the shot, which isn't approved for use in the U.S. Here's the latest on the pandemic. Texas will gain the most new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives under new Census numbers released Monday following a controversial count during the Trump administration. States in the Democratic-leaning Northeast as well as the Midwest will lose seven seats, shifting more political power to Republican strongholds before the 2022 midterm elections. Texas and Florida gained seats while California and New York lost. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Please, wealthy people, stow your indignation about U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed capital gains tax increases, Timothy L. O'Brien writes in Bloomberg Opinion. All these bad things that will supposedly happen, he writes, are based not on facts but voodoo. Freshly immunized and flush with cash, some leisure travelers are splurging on premium seats for their first trips back. Business class is a hot commodity. What you'll need to know tomorrow  Biden capital gains tax to apply to those who make over $1 million. Covid frustration is building at the world's longest land border. Apple and Google have decided to kill off the cookie monster. Chewy's co-founder has a turnaround plan for GameStop. Why Walmart, McDonald's and Jamie Dimon want to hire ex-cons. CityLab: Americans are leaving cities. Here's where they're going. Technology, not turbochargers, is the new focus at Porsche. What you'll want to hear in Bloomberg Podcasts The Shrink Next Door Finally Faces the Music The psychiatrist who was the focus of Bloomberg's "The Shrink Next Door" podcast was ordered to surrender his license to practice in New York after violating professional standards in dealings with several patients. Now Bloomberg's Joe Nocera returns with a final episode of the popular podcast describing how the long, troubled tale of Isaac "Ike" Herschkopf and Marty Markowitz comes to an end. Isaac Herschkopf and Marty Markowitz in Southampton, New York Photographer: Photographer: William Mebane Like getting the Evening Briefing? Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to trusted, data-driven journalism and gain expert analysis from exclusive subscriber-only newsletters. The Bloomberg Wealth Summit: Join us on May 4 for a virtual event designed to provide private investors, family offices and financial advisers actionable intelligence from economists, money managers and policy professionals. They will shed light on the most vexing questions—and surprising opportunities—facing wealth management in a post-pandemic world. Sponsored by BNY Mellon and Grayscale. Register here. Download the Bloomberg app: It's available for iOS and Android. Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. Find out more about how the Terminal delivers information and analysis that financial professionals can't find anywhere else. Learn more. You received this message because you are subscribed to Bloomberg's Evening Briefing newsletter. Unsubscribe | Bloomberg.com | Contact Us Bloomberg L.P. 731 Lexington, New York, NY, 10022