Health Care Down as Flight from Sector Continues -- Health Care Roundup

Health-care companies ticked down as a retreat from one of the leading 2021 sectors continued.

Johnson & Johnson shares rose slightly after posting robust fourth-quarter sales growth. The health-care conglomerate finished 2021 with its strongest quarter to date for Covid-19 vaccine sales, contributing to year-over-year revenue growth across the company as it prepares to separate its consumer-health unit.

Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. have reached the highest level since early last year, rising to 2188 on Monday, reflecting the toll taken by the Omicron variant and rising case counts.

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