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FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, Merck CEO Ken Frazier speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Merck is entering a new era, with sweeping changes across its executive suite and the spinoff off its women's health and other businesses, a bid to enable both resulting companies to grow faster. The massive management makeover, mostly triggered by Frazier's upcoming retirement, occurs as the drugmaker says hits to sales of many of its medicines amid lockdowns and other impacts from the coronavirus pandemic will lessen and sales will rise over the rest of the year. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
New era begins at Merck as pandemic cuts Q1 sales, profit

By Linda A. Johnson Apr. 29, 2021 06:58 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Mar. 10, 2021 07:43 PM EST
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 10 The Virginian Pilot ...

President Joe Biden speaks about efforts to combat COVID-19, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden stands by May timeline for vaccines for all US adults

By Zeke Miller, Linda A. Johnson And Jonathan Lemire Mar. 03, 2021 11:59 AM EST

FILE - This September 2020, file photo provided by Johnson & Johnson shows a pharmacist preparing to give an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021 cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two. (Johnson & Johnson via AP, File)
Biden vows enough vaccine for all US adults by end of May

By Zeke Miller, Linda A. Johnson And Jonathan Lemire Mar. 02, 2021 08:27 AM EST

An army doctor prepares to inject the Sinovac vaccine from China during a vaccination at Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The Philippines launched a vaccination campaign to contain one of Southeast Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks but faces supply problems and public resistance, which it hopes to ease by inoculating top officials. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
The Latest: Ontario seniors won't get AstraZeneca vaccine

By The Associated Press Mar. 02, 2021 06:55 AM EST

FILE- This May 1, 2018, file photo shows Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. Merck posted a big fourth-quarter loss, mainly due to much higher spending on research, production and overhead, and announced longtime chief executive, Kenneth Frazier, will retire on July 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Longtime Merck CEO, minority advocate Ken Frazier to retire

By Linda A. Johnson Feb. 04, 2021 07:23 AM EST

Surgeon General of the U.S. Jerome Adams, left, elbow-bumps Emergency Room technician Demetrius Mcalister after Mcalister got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Youngrae Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
Pfizer to supply US with additional 100M doses of vaccine

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Dec. 23, 2020 12:56 AM EST

FILE- This May 1, 2018, file photo shows Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. The pandemic increased sales of Merck medicines during the first quarter of 2020, as households around the world stocked up, but the drugmaker expects a significant hit this quarter as the full force of the outbreak lands. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Merck ups outlook, turns profit during global vaccine hunt

By Linda A. Johnson Jul. 31, 2020 07:25 AM EDT

Construction workers stand on a mound of dirt as they watch and take photos as the military's elite flight demonstration squadrons, the Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force's Thunderbirds, perform "a collaborative salute" to honor those battling the COVID-19 pandemic during the current coronavirus outbreak, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Earnings season is in full swing and uncertainty is certain

By The Associated Press Apr. 28, 2020 07:49 PM EDT

FILE- This May 1, 2018, file photo shows Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. The pandemic increased sales of Merck medicines during the first quarter of 2020, as households around the world stocked up, but the drugmaker expects a significant hit this quarter as the full force of the outbreak lands. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Merck expects brunt of pandemic will strike this quarter

By Linda A. Johnson Apr. 28, 2020 11:17 AM EDT