Health-care companies rose amid merger activity in the sector.
GW Pharmaceuticals rallied after rival Jazz Pharmaceuticals agreed to buy the maker of an epilepsy drug derived from the marijuana plant, for $6.7 billion in cash and stock.
Drug wholesaler McKesson said it distributed more than 25 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. through the end of January and that it has the capacity to distribute many more doses.
A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus visited a research institute in China at the center of U.S. assertions, denied by Beijing, that the pandemic could have stemmed from a laboratory accident.
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