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2、unvaccinated workers, warnsofno sickpay Federal regulators are likely to approve a Covid-19 booster shotforvaccinatedadults starting at least six months af- ter the previous dose in ad- vance of the White House plan tostartboostersineight months, a person familiar with the plans said, as the Biden a

3、dministration steps up prepa- rations for delivering boosters to the public. Data from vaccine manufac- turers and other countries un- der review by the Food and Drug Administration is based on boosters being given at six months, the person said. Ap- proval for Pfizer Inc. and part- BYSTEPHANIEARMOU

4、R ANDJAREDS.HOPKINS YourToddler Demands Sanitizer iii Covidritualscreate kidshard-wired for hygienehabits BYKRYSTALHUR Like many toddlers, 1-year- old Asher Subramanyam is ca- pable of bending the house- holdtohisroutinesand rituals. The Connecticut tot de- mands that all visitors wash their hands b

5、efore leaning down for a hug. There are no exceptions, as his grandpar- ents found out on a recent visit. “He would motion for them to wash their hands or he would come over and pretend to give them hand sanitizer,” says Ashers father, Dr. Venkat Subramanyam. Covid-19 has created a sub- Pleaseturnto

6、pageA10 Share-priceperformance Sou rce: FactSetNote: ADRss hown JD.com Pinduoduo 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 % July2 0 2 1Aug. Alibaba studiously avoiding tackling contentious issues head on. Hes turned to private sector experts on the coronavirus and other issues, asking for ideas via WhatsApp. In a video pu

7、blished on Twitter this month, Mr. Ben- nett and members of each co- alition party urged people to get vaccinated against the cor- onavirus, regardless of politi- cal affiliation. Mr. Bennetts coalition ac- complished what no other op- ponent of Mr. Netanyahu could over the past 12 yearsit drove him

8、 from power. The political survival of the 49- year-old prime minister de- pends on winning enough votes beyond his traditional constituency to continue to lead. At stake is moving the country past a divisive and PleaseturntopageA10 TEL AVIVSince taking over in June as Israels prime minister, Naftal

9、i Bennett has tried to construct a new politi- cal order. The biggest obstacle might be the man he dis- placed, his predecessor, Benja- min Netanyahu. Mr. Bennett, a right-wing politician who will be in Washington this week to meet President Joe Biden, heads an unstable coalition of leftist, right-w

10、ing and Arab parties and by necessity must govern from the center. He has tried to call every minister each week to ask how they are, according to coali- tion members. His tweets add the handles of other ministers to congratulate them on the governments work, which is BYDOVLIEBER ANDRORYJONES Hundre

11、ds of people gathered near a checkpoint outside the airport in Kabul on Wednesday in hopes of fleeing Afghanistan. ASSOCIATED PRESS ner BioNTech SE could come in mid-September. The Biden administration and companies have said there should be enough supply for boosters that they plan to be- gin distr

12、ibuting more widely on Sept. 20. The U.S. has pur- chased a combined one billion doses from Pfizer and Mod- ernaInc.AWhiteHouse spokesman declined to com- ment. An FDA spokeswoman declined to comment on inter- actions with vaccine makers. Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday they had asked U.S. health

13、 regulators to au- PleaseturntopageA6 Virus-origin sleuths say time is short. A6 IsraelsNewLeader FightsItsOldOne Can Bennett hold on to his government? Delta Air Lines Inc. pivoted to a more-punitive approach toward getting its workforce vaccinated against Covid-19, saying unvaccinated workers will

14、paya$200monthly health-insurancesurcharge and could lose pay protection for missing work due to the disease. The moves reflect a new front in companies efforts to keepemployeessafeand working. Until now, many em- ployers used incentives, such as cash bonuses, to motivate workers to get vaccinated, o

15、r have mandated vaccinations. Deltas approach instead fo- cuses on the financial burden of Covid-19 and aims to trans- fer it to those resisting vacci- nation. Studies show vaccina- tion greatly reduces the risk of severe disease or death from the disease. The $200 monthly charge for unvaccinated wo

16、rkers en- rolled in Deltas healthcare plan “will be necessary to ad- dress the financial risk the de- cision to not vaccinate is cre- ating for our company,” Chief Executive Ed Bastian wrote to employees Wednesday. Mr. Bastian put a price on the lack of vaccination, saying the additional charge will

17、 help to cover hospital stays that are more likely for unvacci- PleaseturntopageA6 BYALISONSIDER Facing an Aug. 31 deadline to leave Afghanistan, the U.S. must shift in a few days from evacuating thousands of Af- ghans and up to 1,500 Ameri- cans still in the country to the job of loading the remain

18、ing U.S. military personnel and es- sential equipment onto the fi- nal departing planes. By Nancy A. Youssef, Saeed Shah and Courtney McBride The evacuation operation in Kabul is taking place under in- creasingly perilous conditions. The U.S. Embassy, citing terror threats, issued a security alert l

19、ate Wednesday to tell Ameri- cans not to travel to Hamid Karzai International Airport and said those already there should leave. “U.S. citizens who are at the AbbeyGate,EastGate,or North Gate now should leave immediately,” the alert said. Of- ficials have been warning that members of the Afghan bran

20、ch of the Islamic State extremist group were trying to mount an attack on military personnel or civilians at the airport. The Biden administration on Wednesday provided its first count of American civilians in Afghanistan, saying up to 1,500 U.S. citizens remained in the country. U.S. officials are

21、trying to evacuate 500 of the Americans, and are in contact with them, SecretaryofStateAntony Blinken said at the State De- partment. The status of an- other 1,000 civilian Americans is unclear, said Mr. Blinken, adding that U.S. officials were trying to contact them. He said some may not be U.S. ci

22、tizens, others may have left the country already and some may be planning to stay. Approximately 4,500 Ameri- PleaseturntopageA8 U.S. Hunting for Americans As Afghan Deadline Closes In BoosterShotsLi kel y AfterSi xMonths Tech Stocks Gain in China After big selloffs this summer, Chinas internet stoc

23、ks are climbing back. B4 Chi p Makers i nTal ks For$20 Bi l l i onMerger Western Digital Corp. is in advanced talks to merge with Japans Kioxia Holdings Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could be valued at more than $20 billion and further reor- der the global chip

24、industry. Long-runningdiscussions between the companies have heated up in the past few weeks and they could reach agreement on a deal as early as mid-Sep- tember, the people said. West- ern Digital would pay for the deal with stock and the com- bined company would likely be run by its Chief Executiv

25、e, Da- vid Goeckeler, the people said. There is no guarantee West- ern Digital, which had a mar- ket value of around $19 billion Wednesday afternoon, will seal an agreement, and Kioxia could still opt for an initial public of- fering it had been planning or another combination. The Wall Street Journ

26、al re- ported in March that Western Digital and Micron Technology Inc. were examining potential dealswithKioxia,which makes NAND flash-memory chips used in smartphones, computer servers and other devices. Microns interest has since cooled and Kioxia has been focused on discussions with Western Digit

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32、ducts Inc. In a sign of how difficult it can be to get such deals across the finish line, Nvidia last week said getting approval for its proposed purchase of Arm has progressed only slowly. U.K. regulators are assessing whether to give their blessing to a deal that also still needs approval from oth

33、er govern- ments. China only just recently approved Analogs purchase of Maxim, more than a year after the deal was first struck. Intel Corp. meanwhile, has made clear it is interested in acquisitions and has explored purchasingGlobalFoundries Inc. The chip-production firm, owned by an investment arm

34、 of the Abu Dhabi government, is planning an IPO and has so far been unreceptive, however. (Intel last year agreed to sell most of its memory-chip business to South Koreas SK Hynix Inc.) Demand for memory chips has been hot, lifted by new smartphone launches, 5G ex- pansion and demand for PCs and se

35、rvers. Samsung Electron- ics Co., the worlds largest memory-chip maker, last month said roaring demand helped off- set weakness in smartphone shipments. In a reflection of the demand, flash-memory prices have shot up in recent months. That has helped Kioxias valuation since it backed away quire the

36、blessing of the Japa- nese government, given Kioxias significance there and the polit- ical sensitivities of transferring ownership of such key technol- ogy. Washington would also likely play a role, but a deal could fit with a push by the U.S. to boost its chip-making capa- bilities and increase co

37、mpeti- tiveness with China. Perhaps the biggest regula- tory hurdle would be China, which has been increasingly ag- gressive in its antitrust enforce- ment, helping scuttle potential deals including Qualcomm Inc.s proposed $44 billion purchase of Dutch chip maker NXP Semi- conductors NV in 2018. The

38、re has been a burst of acquisition activity among chip makers, with the industry ac- counting for several of the big- gest deals of the past few years. Those include Advanced Micro Devices Inc.s roughly $35 billion purchase of Xilinx Inc., Nvidia Corp.s roughly $40 billionbuyoutofSoftBank Group Corp

39、.-backed Arm Hold- ContinuedfromPageOne ECONOMY Durable-Goods Orders Declined 0.1% in July Orders forcars, appli ances and otherdurable goods de- creased sli ghtly i n July, as manu- facturers conti nued to grapple wi th shortages i n parts and la- borand confront hi ghermateri al costs. New orders

40、forproducts meant to last at least three years decreased 0.1% to a sea- sonally adjusted $257.2 bi lli on i n July as compared wi th June, the Commerce Department sai d Wednesday. Economi sts sur- veyed by The Wall Street Jour- nal had esti mated a 0.5% de- cli ne. Orders i ncreased 0.8% i n June fr

41、om the pri ormonth, un- changed from the i ni ti al esti - mate forthe month. Demand for durable goods has i ncreased i n 13 of the past 15 months. The overall numberwas hurt by a 48.9% decli ne between June and July on new orders for nondefense ai rcraft and parts, a category that i s often volati

42、le. from a planned IPO last fall, citing the coronavirus pan- demic and market volatility. It was expecting a valuation then of around $16 billion. WesternDigital,which makes hard-disk drives, solid- state drives and NAND chips, has a joint venture with Kioxia formanufacturingandre- search and devel

43、opment that was set to expire starting in 2027. That agreement appears to have given Western Digital a leg up on Micron, which has a market value of $83 billion and could have more easily pulled off a full takeover. Their existing ties could help make a WD-Kioxia combination more palatable to regula

44、tors. Western Digital shares ral- lied on the news that it was exploring a deal with Kioxia, closing up 7.8% Wednesday at $65.50. That could indicate shareholders are supportive despite what a large bite it would be. Kioxia, formerly part of Toshiba Corp. and known as Toshiba Memory, was pur- chased

45、 in 2018 by a group led by private-equity firm Bain Capital that included Apple Inc., Dell Technologies Inc., Kingston Technology Co. and Seagate Technology PLC, for around $18 billion. Toshiba re- tained a 40% stake in the busi- ness, which was renamed Ki- oxia the following year. New orders fornon

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47、y Hochul pi cked a state lawmakerfrom New York Ci ty to succeed heri n herold post as li eutenant gover- nor , accordi ng to a person fami l- i arwi th the matter . State Sen. Bri an Benjami n, a Manhattan Democrat, was cho- sen afterMs. Hochul previ ously sai d she was consi deri ng several OUT WI

48、TH THE OLD: Smokestacks were imploded Wednesday atthe decommissioned ColbertFossil Plantin Tuscumbia,Ala. The coal-fired power plantis being removed to prepare for cleaner fuel options. TVA/ASSOCIATED PRESS Chip Firms Discuss Combining The $20 billion potential deal between Western Digital and Japan

49、 s Kioxia could be finalized as early as the middle of September. FANG ZHE/XINHUA/GETTY IMAGES . 更多细分领域报告请关注搜搜报告（s o s o y a n b a o ），行研君胃：s o s o b a o g a o THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.Thursday, August 26, 2021 |A3 U.S. NEWS CAIRO,Ill.Inanation where more than half of all counties saw population de- clines during the past decade, nowhere fared worse than Al- exander