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Well hello there Thursday! And a good evening Everyone. Hope you had a great day. Know you have been looking at the calendar and its reminding you just one more day to go. Yep, we’re almost there. The end of our week is now clearly in sight. So hang in there and head into tomorrow with that great attitude and big smile I know is in you. Following is our Daily Recap of major Headlines, the “Good Stuff”, US Snapshots, US Vaccinations, US Variant Cases, key Highlights, as well as key Statistics, Vaccine and Treatment information, US Restrictions and the Back to Normal Index related to the novel coronavirus pandemic. For our inspiration tonight, we offer the words from an Unknown author, who said: Optimism won’t change the situation. But optimism will change how the situation feels. So what are we saying? Easy. It’s all about how we look at things. How we can change our mindset to try to be more positive. Affecting out attitude in a positive way. And that, I know, has not been easy for us. Because our situation has been one that no matter how hard we wanted to be different was something we had to continue to face day after day. But even when it’s hard, looking at things in a different light can make such a big difference. Doing our best to look for the positive in things. It’s a simple thing that can change not only what we are facing but how we are able to face it. And even if you only achieve it for just a minute, it will have an effect to help you keep moving forward. And when one minute turns into two. And two in four. Well you get the idea. So next time you don’t think you can go on, find that your inner voice and just let it remind you that. Yes. You. Can . 1
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Headlines Scientists may have found a promising new treatment for Covid-19 after an experimental oral antiviral drug demonstrated the ability to prevent the coronavirus from replicating, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday, citing a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Science that found the drug, called TEMPOL, reduced infections by impairing an enzyme the virus needs to make copies of itself once it’s inside human cells, which could potentially limit the severity of the disease. The level of average daily Covid cases in the US remained below 20,000 for the third straight day Wednesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, with an average of roughly 16,300 infections per day over the past week. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday that the declining numbers of cases are “very encouraging” and while the Covid-19 prognosis is good for the US, vaccinations need to continue, cautioning that “The one thing we want to make sure is that we don’t declare victory prematurely and feel that because things are going in the right direction that we don’t have to keep vaccinating people.” The seven-day average of newly administered doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the US has fallen below 1 million doses per day for the first time since January, according to data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with about 808,000 new doses administered since Wednesday. Dr. Anthony Fauci said that he is “cautiously optimistic” that children under age 12 will be able to get vaccinated by Thanksgiving, and he feels “fairly certain” that the US will not experience the kind of coronavirus surges that the country has seen in the past. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that school guidance is being revisited as more and younger people get vaccinated - and there may be a change in school mask guidance in time for fall, adding that “What we really are doing now is looking at the evidence in the context of so many people getting vaccinated, in the context of disease rates coming down in certain communities and really looking at the evidence now." The White House, besieged with requests from other nations to share excess doses of coronavirus vaccine, on Thursday announced that it would distribute an initial 25 million doses this month across a “wide range of countries” within Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, as well as the Palestinian territories, war-ravaged Gaza and the West Bank. [See SPECIAL - US Global Vaccination Plan section for more detail on this announcement] The coronavirus variant first identified in India is now believed to be the dominant coronavirus variant in the United Kingdom, Public Health England said Thursday, adding in a statement that although there is some regional variation, agency experts now believe that Delta (VOC-21APR-02) has overtaken Alpha, which was previously known as the United Kingdom mutation. A sudden, sharp rise in coronavirus cases in many parts of Africa could amount to a continental third wave, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday, a portent of deeper trouble for a continent whose immunization drives have been crippled by shortfalls in funding and vaccine doses. French health authorities reported 8,161 new confirmed cases over 24 hours, taking the total to 5.69 million - the world's fourth-highest total, but a number that has stayed below 10,000 for a fifth straight day, a sequence unseen since early September, with the seven-day moving average of infections falling below 9,000 for the first time since September 19. Authorities in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, announced Thursday the cancellation of the annual hajj pilgrimage for the second year in a row, citing pandemic concerns, with religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas saying at a news conference that Saudi Arabia, home to the Muslim holy city of Mecca, had not yet set a quota for travelers from Indonesia, which normally sends more than 220,000 pilgrims each year.
2 The European Council on Thursday updated its list of countries that are deemed safe in the context of the pandemic, but decided to not add the US, with the only additional to the list of countries outside the European Union was Japan, the others being Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and - subject to reciprocity – China, with the Union’s 27 member states expected to “gradually lift the travel restrictions” for residents from the nine nations, including those placed on nonessential travel. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fifth straight week to a new pandemic low, the latest evidence that the US job market is regaining its health as the economy further reopens, and the Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped to 385,000, down 20,000 from the week before, with the number of weekly applications for unemployment aid, which generally reflects the pace of layoffs, falling steadily all year, though it remains high by historical standards. More than 10 million Americans, or 14% of US renters, say they aren’t caught up with their housing payments, meaning many could be at risk when the national moratorium on evictions expires in under a month, a finding that comes from data collected by the Census Bureau between May 12 and 24 and analyzed by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who also reported that more than 26% of Americans continue to have trouble meeting their usual expenses, and around 9% couldn’t afford enough food. Celebrity Edge, part of the Celebrity Cruises line owned by Royal Caribbean Group, is poised to be the first major cruise ship to sail from the US in over a year as Covid-19 restrictions continue to ease in the country, cleared to sail from Fort Lauderdale with paying passengers in June, but Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that there is a risk of people infected with Covid-19 spreading the virus when they are on cruise ships with unvaccinated people. The beleaguered Tokyo 2020 Games took another blow this week after it emerged that roughly 10,000 volunteers had quit and a top medical adviser to the government expressed worries about the event going ahead, and while Tokyo’s failure to control an ongoing spike in coronavirus infections was a factor behind the mass resignations, said Toshiro Muto, the Japanese organizing committee’s chief, he insisted that the loss of more than 10 percent of the 80,000 volunteers who had signed up was not “particularly problematic,” given the smaller nature of the event, which will not have foreign spectators. An unidentified doubles team has been forced out of the French Open because of positive COVID tests, the French Tennis Federation said, the first positive tests of 2,446 conducted at the tournament so far.
The Good Stuff: It has been 469 days since covid-19 cut us off from our colleagues. We’ve now logged more than 11,256 hours at home, but we’ve been far from idle. The past year-plus bathed the nation in stress and suffering, a number of us enduring it alone. And as we’ve self-isolated in our homes, separated by walls and miles from colleagues, friends and family, the distance strained the bonds that unite us and the calm that keeps us sane. It felt impossible to look away, but lest we be overwhelmed, it was also imperative that, from time to time, we did. For a number of us, video games provided a refuge, proxy worlds to inhabit while ours was unsuitable for life as we knew it. From Animal Crossing to Verdansk, the games provided a measure of relief. Instead of grabbing beers at a bar, friends paired up in multiplayer lobbies. They donned headsets and delivered life updates in disembodied voices, along with descriptions of which players looked a little “sus.” Vacations were scrapped and replaced with byte-sized getaways to war-torn battlefields and post-apocalyptic landscapes that somehow instilled serenity. It was no replacement for the real world we’d lost. It was certainly not better than a meal with friends, nor the embrace of a mother or father. But it was what we had. In these moments, living more in the pixels and polygons of avatars than our own flesh and blood, we muddled through. We found some solace, such as it was. And for that, in a year that was utterly and literally unplayable, we are grateful. Games helped us approximate the world we lost, the time we wanted to spend with friends and family. They helped us reunite with familiar voices and even meet new ones. If only for a few moments, they helped us forget the burning world around us. [Story from The Washington Post]
US Snapshots Trending Stats Data compiled daily from John Hopkins CSSE Tracking, Recent Death trending is being attributed primarily to recent state audits for previously unreported numbers and backlogs from the holiday
Seven-Day Trending as of Thu Daily Average Daily Average June 3 Case Increase Death Increase Positivity Rate Total Tests 3 This Week 15,760 458 7.90% 447,462,772 Last Week 22,798 670 7.97% 441,397,723 Change -7,038 -212 -0.07% 6,065,049 % -30.87% -31.64% -0.88% 1.37% As of June 2 -29.58% -6.61% -0.75% 1.26% As of June 1 -27.81% 15.23% -0.88% 1.40% As of May 31 -16.59% 13.61% -0.75% 1.30% As of May 30 -19.34% 15.66% -0.87% 1.46% As of May 29 -18.45% 15.29% -1.00% 1.47% As of May 28 -19.40% 16.58% -1.12% 1.76%
Data compiled normally weekly from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inpatient Bed Inpatient Bed Use (COVID- ICU Bed Use Weekly Trending Use 19) ICU Bed Use (COVID-19) As of May 29 70.51% 4.43% 66.15% 7.98% As of May 22 70.55% 4.69% 66.95% 8.52% Change -0.04% -0.26% -0.80% -0.54% As of May 15 70.04% 5.31% 67.06% 9.49% As of May 8 68.54% 6.03% 67.97% 10.71% As of May 1 70.74% 6.27% 68.27% 11.27% As of Apr 24 70.39% 6.57% 68.11% 11.05% As of Apr 17 70.43% 6.52% 67.68% 10.56%
Trending Charts Charts compiled from Sunknighty CVOB web site via Johns Hopkins University data, updated daily from the previous day’s numbers
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US Vaccinations Data compiled daily by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated June 3 People Vaccinated At Least One Dose Fully Vaccinated Total 169,090,262 136,644,618 % of Total Population 50.9% 41.2% Population = > 12 Years of Age 168,954,018 136,635,500 % of Population = > 12 Years of Age 60.3% 48.8% Population = > 18 Years of Age 162,560,820 134,306,642 % of Population = > 18 Years of Age 63.0% 52.0% Population = > 65 Years of Age 47,053,094 41,039,623 % of Population = > 65 Years of Age 86.0% 75.0%
Reported doses administered by day Data compiled daily by The Washington Post from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated June 3 In the last week, an average of 995,000 doses per day were administered, a less than 38% decrease over the week before.
State Doses Data compiled daily by The Washington Post, share of population fully vaccinated, updated June 3
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SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Variant Listing - Published from The New York Times Variant Tracker
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Estimates of US Prevalence Data compiled by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Estimated Proportions of SARS-CoV-2 Lineages. The data below shows the estimated biweekly prevalence of the most common SARS-CoV-2 lineages circulating in the United States, based on >40,000 sequences collected through CDC’s national genomic surveillance since Dec 20, 2020 and grouped in 2-week intervals. Data are subject to change over time and will be updated as more data become available. Variant proportions are adjusted using statistical weighting to correct for the non-random sampling of sequencing data over time and across states and to provide more representative national estimates.
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8 Proportions in the table above are only shown for states for which CDC has at least 300 sequences from specimens collected during this timeframe. Proportions are calculated using empirical (unweighted) data, which are subject to change over time and will be updated as more data become available. Proportions of variants do not represent the total number that may be circulating in the United States and may not match cases reported by states, territories, tribes, and local officials. For states and jurisdictions not listed, CDC has insufficient genomic surveillance data for the specified time period.
Variant Lineage - Table taken from Wikipedia’s Variants of SARS-CoV-2 page
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Key news and updates - Published from The New York Times Variant Tracker
Highlights Vaccine Rollout - US 1. Overall, more than 169 million people - more than 51% of the US population - have received at least one dose of vaccine, and about 136.6 million - about 41% - is fully vaccinated, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released today. 2. Among adults 18 and older, 63% have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine, and 52% are fully vaccinated, and over the past week, an average of about 482,000 people initiated vaccination each day, including an average of more than 75,000 children between the ages 12 and 15 each day. 3. Many states in the Deep South and Mountain West have seen vaccinations have leveled off because of limited access and shot hesitancy, with Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming vaccinating fewer than half of their adult residents, with projections showing that they are unlikely to reach much more than half by early July.
10 4. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday that she expects the country will reach President Joe Biden’s goal of 70% of US adults receiving one shot of vaccine by July 4. 5. The next phase of the vaccine campaign in the US will be more difficult, but “we’re not giving up,” US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Wednesday after President Biden announced a "National Month of Action,” adding that “Because we had so much success early on, we are now getting to the part of the campaign which is tougher,” adding “We've got to look further, if you will - convince more people, get to the right information, increase access even further.” 6. The Department of Education is launching a new initiative to encourage US colleges and universities to vaccinate all students, faculty and staff against Covid-19, a plan, called the "Covid-19 College Challenge," aimed to help progress the overall number of Americans vaccinated, with schools that wish to take part in the pledge able to do so by engaging the campus community and letting them know they are eligible for the vaccine, identifying efforts and providing resources about the vaccine, and by providing access to getting the vaccine on campus or at sites nearby. 7. Wisconsin lawmakers are advancing a slate of bills that would bar business owners, university leaders or government officials from requiring the vaccination or treating unvaccinated people differently. 8. New York City officials will park mobile vaccine buses outside popular nightlife destinations in the city in an effort to get younger New Yorkers vaccinated, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, with the program, nicknamed “Shots and Shots,” focusing on downtown Brooklyn and the West Village this Thursday and Friday night. 9. New York City is also continuing its efforts to get children ages 12 to 17 vaccinated, and in addition to in-school vaccinations beginning in the Bronx on Friday, the city will soon be hosting “Youth Vax Block Parties” in various neighborhoods to reach more of the target group by hosting community events with pediatricians to answer questions and offer information to parents and kids. 10. Kroger Health, the health care division of The Kroger Co, announced Thursday that between June 3 and July 10 it is giving away $5 million to motivate more people to get a vaccine, reflecting a $1 million winner each week for five weeks, as well as 50 "groceries for a year," ten each week for five weeks, each valued at $13,000. 11. Colorado will give $50,000 scholarships to 25 students who have received vaccinations in another incentive to get as many state residents vaccinated as possible, with Governor Jared Polis saying late Wednesday that state resident students 12 to 17 who have received at least one vaccine dose are eligible. SPECIAL - US Global Vaccination Plan The Biden administration announced a framework Thursday to share at least 80 million Covid-19 vaccine doses with the rest of the world by the end of June, including a more specific plan for the first 25 million doses, with at least 75% of these donated vaccines will be shared with the COVAX global vaccination program, and 25% will be shared directly with countries in need. The US will donate nearly 19 million doses through the COVAX international vaccine-sharing program, with some 6 million doses going to Latin America and the Caribbean, about 7 million doses to South and Southeast Asia and roughly 5 million to Africa, with the remaining doses, amounting to just over 6 million, going directly to countries including Canada, Mexico, India and South Korea. White House senior Covid adviser Jeff Zients outlined a three-pronged approach from the Biden administration to sharing more vaccines globally, expanding upon the Thursday announcement that the US will be scaling up its global vaccine sharing efforts to include: o Donating surplus supplies and encouraging other countries with surplus supplies to do the same o Working with US vaccine manufacturers to “vastly increase supply for the rest of the world in a way that also creates jobs here at home” o Work with partner nations and pharmaceutical companies to facilitate global vaccine manufacturing and production capacity and capabilities President Biden, in announcing the US plan to share vaccines globally today, said that "We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions” but rather “We are sharing these vaccines to save lives and to lead the world in bringing an end to the pandemic, with the power of our example and with our values.” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said today the US will "ultimately" have the authority to decide which countries receive the first 25 million doses vaccines that the Biden administration will share with the world, adding that they are working off a list of countries from the COVAX global vaccination program and have made selections "against that list in coordination with them, so that we will retain the say in terms of where they go."
11 Ahead of her trip to the Northern Triangle of Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris has called the leaders of Guatemala and Mexico, as well as the Prime Minister of India and Chair of the Caribbean Community, this morning in separate phone calls to inform them of the US global vaccine allocation strategy. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday that following a conversation with US Vice President Kamala Harris, the US had agreed to send one million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine. Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei said on Thursday that the US will supply half a million COVID-19 doses to the Central American country. Vaccine Rollout - Global 1. Chile's health ministry on Thursday said it would raise the minimum age of men approved to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine to 45 from 18, and suspend administering second doses until authorities complete an investigation into a 31-year old man who had a blood clot after his first shot. 2. Bahraini health officials say the country is now offering Pfizer-BioNTech doses to high-risk individuals who have already received two jabs of Sinopharm in the latest development to cast doubt on the Chinese-developed vaccine’s effectiveness. 3. The United Kingdom has fully vaccinated half of its population almost six months after beginning its vaccination program, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday, adding “This is an amazing achievement,” and “After months of sacrifice, we’re getting to do many of the things we’ve yearned to do for a long time.” 4. Afghanistan has received 500,000 shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India and another 468,000 doses from Covax, the global vaccine consortium, said Mirwais Alizai, deputy spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, with around 630,000 Afghans now having received at least one dose of the vaccine out of an estimated population of about 34 million. 5. France has donated 184,000 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine to Senegal through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, the program's sponsors said in a statement on Thursday. 6. India signed its first order for an unapproved vaccine on Thursday, with the government buying 300 million vaccine doses from local firm Biological-E and has put down an advance of $205.6 million, the health ministry said, even though the vaccine is still going through Phase III clinical trials. 7. Taiwan is in talks with vaccine makers like Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson for more supplies, its foreign minister said on Thursday while expressing appreciation to Japan for considering donating much needed shots. 8. The heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Thursday urged the Group of Seven advanced economies to release any excess vaccines to developing countries as soon as possible, and called on manufacturers to ramp up production, and in a joint statement also called on governments, pharmaceutical companies and groups involved in vaccine procurement to boost transparency about contracting, financing and deliveries. 9. India’s Supreme Country called the country’s decision to charge people ages 18 to 44 for vaccines when it is provided free to other groups, “arbitrary and irrational,” sharply criticizing the faltering government vaccination policy as a second wave slammed the country and raising questions over spending from its $4.8 billion budget allocation for vaccine procurement and whether that money could be used to provide free vaccinations for younger age groups. New Variants 1. The World Health Organization’s top official in Vietnam said that the mutation first detected in the Southeast Asian country, said to be a mutation of the Delta B.1.617.2 variant originally found in India, does not meet the global health body’s definition of a new variant, though it is still very transmissible and dangerous. 2. Public Health England’s weekly variant cases data shows that infections of the Delta (VOC-21APR-02) variant first identified in India across the United Kingdom have risen by 5,472 since last week to 12,431, with at least 278 people with the strain hospitalized and 94 people admitted overnight - an increase from the 201 people with the mutation who were in the hospital last week, including 43 hospital admissions. 3. Afghanistan appears to be in the grip of a third wave of infections, driven in part by the spread of the Alpha variant first discovered in Britain, according to the Ministry of Public Health. 4. Experts believe the spread of new variants - like those first identified in South Africa, the United Kingdom and India - is contributing to the surge and ensuing rise in deaths in many parts of Africa. US Outbreak 1. Nearly a year ago, more than 43 percent of coronavirus deaths in the US were tied to long-term-care facilities, but now, the deaths of people connected to such facilities has dropped to 31 percent, according to a New York Times
12 database, revealing an improving picture for the oldest Americans, and according to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, nursing homes reported more than 5,000 deaths per week from early December through mid-January, but since late March there have been fewer than 300 a week. 2. Contact tracing efforts largely failed last summer during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study of 14 US health departments says, with researchers looking at 74,185 cases recorded at health departments in 11 states and one tribal nation between June and October 2020, calculating that about 66% of those potentially exposed to the coronavirus were not notified, according to the findings published Thursday in the journal JAMA Network Open. 3. New York City reported a positivity rate of 0.81% on Thursday - reaching a new record for the lowest rate the city has seen since it began recording that statistic, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, with cases decreasing by 95% since January, the positivity rate has decreased by 91%, the Covid-19 hospitalization rate has decreased by 86% and the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations has decreased by 69%. 4. Chicago reported a 2% positivity rate on Wednesday, the lowest the city has had since March 2020. 5. Working parents need child care, but day cares are struggling to retain workers, with just half of the child care workers who left early in the pandemic having returned, Myra Jones-Taylor, the chief policy officer at the nonprofit Zero to Three, said in a recent US Senate committee hearing, with Leslie Spina, the executive director of an early- childhood education provider in Philadelphia, saying “We’re in a staffing crisis in this industry.” 6. The US Embassy in Kabul issued an urgent warning Thursday urging American citizens to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible because of the worsening coronavirus situation there, saying in a statement that “New cases and deaths from COVID-19 haven risen sharply throughout Afghanistan. Hospitals are reporting shortages of supplies, oxygen, and beds,” and adding that US citizens have reported being denied admittance to hospitals because of a lack of space. US Restrictions & Schools 1. The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board meets Thursday to consider controversial new workplace rules that would only allow workers to go maskless if everyone in a room is fully vaccinated, a proposal is more restrictive than CDC recommendations and has the Chamber of Commerce and other businesses and organizations crying foul. 2. Chicago will fully reopen on June 11, with Mayor Lori Lightfoot saying Thursday “Because you've masked up, socially distanced and got vaccinated we're now moving to Phase 5 on Friday, June 11 in alignment with the state." 3. California has agreed to pay more than $2 million in legal fees in a settlement with churches that challenged pandemic closure orders. Global Outbreak 1. The World Health Organization said Thursday that test positivity had risen in 14 African countries over the last seven days, with eight reporting a surge of over 30 percent in new cases, with infections steadily climbing in South Africa, where four of nine provinces are battling a third wave, and there has also been a sharp increase in cases in Uganda, with hospitals overwhelmed with Covid patients and authorities mulling a lockdown. 2. England Public Health reported a total of 5,274 new cases have been confirmed across the United Kingdom on Thursday, marking the highest daily total since March 26, with the increases said to be expected and being seen particularly in younger age groups who are not yet being vaccinated and are having regular testing. 3. France's seven-day moving average of daily COVID-19 deaths fell below 100 for the first time since October 27, official figures showed on Thursday, and in another sign that the virus seems finally to be under control a month after the country exited its third lockdown, the number of people in intensive care for the respiratory disease decreased again, by 77 to 2,677, a figure more than halved since a peak of 6,001 reached on April 26. 4. British officials announced Thursday that travelers returning from Portugal or its island territories of Madeira and the Azores will no longer be able to avoid quarantining as of Tuesday, complicating the plans for those hoping for easy getaways to the country this summer. 5. Sweden's centre-left minority government, which never ordered a COVID-19 lockdown and relied instead mostly on voluntary curbs, failed in several aspects of its handling of the pandemic, parliament's constitutional committee reported on Thursday, saying the government was slow to put in place a testing and tracing system, failed to protect of the elderly and there was a lack of clear lines of responsibility between national and local authorities. 6. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not yet been immunized against covid-19, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said Thursday, just hours after declaring that the leader had received Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. Economy and Business
13 1. Employers have added 1.8 million jobs this year - an average of more than 450,000 a month - and the government's May jobs report on Friday is expected to show that they added an additional 656,000 last month, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet, but the economy remains down 8.2 million jobs from its level in February 2020, just before the virus tore through the economy. 2. New York has extended its eviction moratorium until September for tenants who’ve endured a Covid-related setback or for whom moving could pose a health risk, and to qualify, renters must submit a hardship form to their landlord. 3. New Jersey won’t allow evictions to proceed until two months after its state of emergency status is lifted, which is expected to occur in mid-June, meaning most renters will likely be safe until at least sometime in August. 4. Vermont will ban most evictions until 30 days after its state of emergency concludes, which right now means struggling renters should be able to stay in their homes until the middle of July. 5. Oregon’s eviction ban lapses at the end of the month, but renters can’t be evicted for rent owed between the months of April 2020 and June 2021, and they have until the end of February 2022 to make up those payments. 6. Greg Rosenbaum, a banking executive who owns a Cincinnati Reds farm team, launched an effort to help save various minor league teams by hiring lobbyists to secure federal Covid relief funds as the new season gets under way, with a report by Sportico finding that minor baseball clubs combined to lose $800 million in revenue last year alone and Baseball America reported in March that the clubs were shut out of receiving Covid relief money in the $1.9 trillion package signed into law. 7. Russia’s economy is showing signs of overheating with annual inflation currently at 5.9%, Anton Siluanov, the country’s finance minister, said Thursday, with consumer price inflation accelerating again in May, rising from 5.5% in April. Other Stories 1. The idea that the coronavirus was deliberately released from a lab is "quite far-fetched," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday morning. 2. One of New York City’s hottest tickets is about to get even harder to get, with Shakespeare in the Park planning to sharply curtail capacity when it returns to the Delacorte Theater this summer after losing a year to the pandemic, officials announced on Thursday, with the 1,800-seat theater currently planning to allow only 428 attendees for each performance of “Merry Wives,” the adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” being put on by the Public Theater. 3. Olympic rugby player Naya Tapper said she’s been briefed on how Team USA will implement “very strict” measures to prevent spread of Covid-19 at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo, explaining “We're being kept in very strict regimens in terms of a lot of testing to make sure that we're all safe, being in very strict quarantine measures and also doing a lot of contact tracing in order to make sure that we're all safe when we go there, and adding “Also, just being there, we will be in our bubble, won't have any contact with residents, which will be very important in keeping everybody safe, and also just trying to encourage everybody to get vaccinated.”
Outbreak Statistics Numbers from John Hopkins CSSE Tracking are pulled daily at 7:00PM and changes reflect the past 24 hours Global Numbers Date Cases Deaths Recovered 3 June Thu 171,917,046 (+445,929) 3,581,030 (-105,654) - 2.08% 109,402,665 (+422,582) 2 June Wed 171,471,117 (+593,637) 3,686,684 (+133,353) - 2.15% 108,980,083 (+646,378)
1 June Tue 170,877,480 (+363,988) 3,553,331 (+8,036) - 2.08% 108,333,705 (+514,382) 31 May Mon 170,513,492 (+344,427) 3,545,295 (+7,516) - 2.08% 107,819,323 (+455,961) 30 May Sun 170,169,065 (+460,378) 3,537,779 (+9,443) - 2.08% 107,363,362 (+582,570)
29 May Sat 169,708,687 (+445,539) 3,528,336 (+9,945) - 2.08% 106,780,792 (+471,203) 28 May Fri 169,263,148 (+557,279) 3,518,391 (+12,826) - 2.08% 106,309,589 (+626,644) Top 15 Global Country Counts Daily case change (total): India: +134,154 (28,441,986), Brazil: +83,391 (16,803,472), Argentina: +35,017 (3,852,156), US: +19,170 (33,323,356), France: +15,558 (5,755,549), Iran: +9,657 (2,945,100), Russia: +8,807
14 (5,040,390), Sweden: +8,520 (1,076,993), Malaysia: +8,209 (595,374), Chile: +8,128 (1,403,101), Philippines: +7,183 (1,247,899), Turkey: +6,602 (5,270,299), Nepal: +5,825 (576,936), Indonesia: +5,353 (1,837,126), United Kingdom: +5,181 (4,515,777) Daily death change (total): India: +2,887 (337,989), Brazil: +1,682 (469,388), Argentina: +587 (79,320), US: +582 (596,359), Russia: +387 (120,604), Mexico: +306 (228,146), Chile: +213 (29,598), Philippines: +199 (21,357), Indonesia: +187 (51,095), Iran: +170 (80,658), France: +149 (109,990), Turkey: +114 (47,882), Germany: +113 (88,965), Japan: +112 (13,331), Ukraine: +108 (53,015) US Numbers Date Cases Deaths
3 June Thu 33,323,204 (+19,170) 596,356 (+582) - 1.79% 2 June Wed 33,304,034 (+20,046) 595,774 (+596) - 1.79% 1 June Tue 33,283,988 (+20,325) 595,178 (+616) - 1.79%
31 May Mon 33,263,663 (+5,268) 594,562 (+135) - 1.79% 30 May Sun 33,258,395 (+9,053) 594,427 (+162) - 1.79% 29 May Sat 33,249,342 (+11,951) 594,265 (+387) - 1.79%
28 May Fri 33,237,391 (+24,505) 593,878 (+727) - 1.79% US State and Territory Counts Cases by daily change (totals): Texas: +2,741 (2,959,035), Florida: +1,878 (2,329,867), Indiana: +1,216 (745,690), Louisiana: +954 (472,617), California: +933 (3,792,196), Pennsylvania: +746 (1,208,879), Washington: +693 (437,677), Illinois: +668 (1,383,647), Missouri: +606 (607,745), Colorado: +576 (544,157), Michigan: +530 (993,952), New York: +499 (2,103,768), Ohio: +490 (1,103,380), North Carolina: +481 (1,003,989), Georgia: +446 (1,125,017), Alabama: +430 (545,028), Kentucky: +416 (459,540), Massachusetts: +392 (707,523), Nevada: +350 (325,031), Utah: +343 (406,825), Arizona: +305 (882,674), Tennessee: +292 (863,620), New Jersey: +281 (1,017,044), Virginia: +258 (676,041), Oregon: +243 (202,241), Minnesota: +236 (601,881), Wisconsin: +200 (674,939), Arkansas: +197 (341,889), Mississippi: +192 (318,048), Idaho: +173 (192,478), West Virginia: +144 (162,111), Maryland: +134 (460,194), Montana: +127 (112,129), Iowa: +126 (371,761), Oklahoma: +115 (453,400), New Mexico: +108 (203,330), Maine: +105 (67,986), South Carolina: +102 (593,628), Connecticut: +70 (347,748), North Dakota: +53 (110,098), Alaska: +53 (70,408), New Hampshire: +49 (98,840), Delaware: +46 (108,957), Hawaii: +45 (36,402), Rhode Island: +41 (151,936), District of Columbia: +30 (49,041), Puerto Rico: +28 (138,799), South Dakota: +15 (124,242), Vermont: +8 (24,240), Guam: +6 (8,193), Kansas: +0 (315,767), Nebraska: +0 (223,434), Wyoming: +0 (60,447), Virgin Islands: +0 (3,512), Northern Mariana Islands: +0 (183), American Samoa: +0 (0) Deaths by daily change (totals): Michigan: +62 (20,485), Texas: +61 (51,631), Florida: +49 (36,973), Pennsylvania: +36 (27,295), Georgia: +33 (20,900), Wisconsin: +29 (7,923), California: +27 (63,309), Illinois: +24 (25,265), Alabama: +21 (11,188), North Carolina: +20 (13,130), Indiana: +20 (13,657), New York: +19 (53,357), Louisiana: +13 (10,605), Washington: +12 (5,801), Colorado: +11 (6,590), Massachusetts: +10 (17,893), Virginia: +10 (11,216), Minnesota: +10 (7,530), Maine: +10 (837), Arizona: +8 (17,656), Tennessee: +7 (12,472), Missouri: +7 (9,544), Arkansas: +7 (5,842), Oregon: +7 (2,683), Idaho: +7 (2,097), West Virginia: +7 (2,807), New Jersey: +6 (26,253), Kentucky: +6 (7,077), Nevada: +6 (5,599), Montana: +6 (1,627), New Mexico: +5 (4,273), Maryland: +4 (9,626), Iowa: +4 (6,065), Utah: +3 (2,308), Rhode Island: +3 (2,715), Puerto Rico: +3 (2,512), North Dakota: +3 (1,546), Mississippi: +2 (7,324), Delaware: +2 (1,668), South Dakota: +1 (2,020), New Hampshire: +1 (1,354), District of Columbia: +1 (1,136), Hawaii: +1 (501), Ohio: +0 (19,923), South Carolina: +0 (9,739), Oklahoma: +0 (7,316), Kansas: +0 (5,081), Nebraska: +0 (2,249), Alaska: +0 (369), Wyoming: +0 (720), Vermont: +0 (255), Guam: +0 (139), Virgin Islands: +0 (28), Northern Mariana Islands: +0 (2), American Samoa: +0 (0), Connecticut: -2 (8,245) Hospital bed utilization rate: Rhode Island: 90.96%, Massachusetts: 82.59%, Pennsylvania: 81.58%, Missouri: 80.51%, Michigan: 79.48%, Maryland: 79.37%, South Carolina: 78.85%, Georgia: 78.69%, Connecticut: 78.07%, Florida: 77.97%, District of Columbia: 77.94%, Minnesota: 77.62%, West Virginia: 77.41%, North Carolina: 76.54%, Oregon: 75.71%, California: 75.29%, Washington: 74.48%, Alabama: 74.29%, New York: 73.79%, Virginia: 73.44%, Ohio: 72.9%, Texas: 71.88%, New Hampshire: 71.83%, Arkansas: 71.62%, Maine: 71.06%, Illinois: 70.99%, Hawaii: 70.93%, Nevada: 70.72%, North Dakota: 70.61%, New Mexico: 69.94%, Delaware: 69.83%, Arizona: 68.78%, Oklahoma: 68.76%, Colorado: 68.66%, New Jersey: 68.48%, Tennessee: 68.41%, Nebraska: 66.97%, Indiana: 66.46%,
15 Louisiana: 66.39%, Vermont: 66.1%, Wisconsin: 66.0%, Alaska: 65.89%, Montana: 65.44%, Mississippi: 65.04%, Iowa: 62.99%, Kentucky: 61.21%, Idaho: 60.66%, Utah: 58.93%, Kansas: 58.53%, South Dakota: 56.97%, Wyoming: 43.76%
Vaccinations – US Current Doses Data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated daily, individual data will not always add up to totals due to reporting irregularities, % of Total Population is calculated from 2020 US Census Data
Total Doses Total Doses Date Distributed Change Administered Change 6/3/2021 383,375,195 16,397,660 297,720,928 808,036
6/2/2021 366,977,535 660,490 296,912,892 508,652 6/1/2021 366,317,045 100 296,404,240 1,475,390
5/31/2021 No reporting due to holiday 5/30/2021 366,316,945 2,320 294,928,850 1,223,800 5/29/2021 366,314,625 3,938,860 293,705,050 1,605,272
5/28/2021 362,375,765 1,125,320 292,099,778 1,375,171
Number of People Number of Receiving 1 or People Fully Date more Doses Change Vaccinated Change 6/3/2021 169,090,262 355,827 136,644,618 489,368
6/2/2021 168,734,435 244,706 136,155,250 287,825 6/1/2021 168,489,729 755,757 135,867,425 780,106
5/31/2021 No reporting due to holiday 5/30/2021 167,733,972 576,929 135,087,319 668,571 5/29/2021 167,157,043 768,914 134,418,748 886,204
5/28/2021 166,388,129 669,412 133,532,544 762,650
Vaccine Administered
Pfizer- Johnson & Date BioNTech Moderna Johnson Not Identified 6/3/2021 161,050,513 125,508,313 10,939,901 222,201
6/2/2021 160,601,395 125,201,557 10,889,478 220,462
6/1/2021 160,309,262 125,016,707 10,858,664 219,607 5/31/2021 No reporting due to holiday 5/30/2021 159,412,031 124,520,914 10,776,617 219,288
5/29/2021 158,708,623 124,067,556 10,710,816 218,055
5/28/2021 157,783,315 123,479,196 10,621,136 216,131 Total doses distributed are cumulative counts of vaccine doses recorded as shipped in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Tracking System.
US Testing Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
% of Positive Negative Positive Date New Tests Tests Tests Total Tests Tests
16 3 June Thu 1,583,673 35,366,685 412,096,087 447,462,772 7.90% 2 June Wed 894,571 35,305,751 410,573,348 445,879,099 7.92% 1 June Tue 1,437,333 35,284,142 409,700,386 444,984,528 7.93%
31 May Mon 0 35,246,365 408,300,830 443,547,195 7.95% 30 May Sun 419,458 35,246,365 408,300,830 443,547,195 7.95% 29 May Sat 720,735 35,229,602 407,898,135 443,127,737 7.95%
28 May Fri 1,009,279 35,206,497 407,200,505 442,407,002 7.96% New Tests (past week): California: 1,061,646, New York: 691,125, Florida: 392,186, Texas: 305,032, Illinois: 293,080, Massachusetts: 274,157, New Jersey: 184,580, Minnesota: 163,625, Pennsylvania: 163,009, Michigan: 156,521, Ohio: 140,191, Maryland: 129,294, North Carolina: 128,235, Colorado: 126,165, Washington: 113,838, Wisconsin: 85,087, Connecticut: 84,635, Georgia: 84,037, Arizona: 79,965, Virginia: 71,425, Indiana: 65,951, Missouri: 63,640, South Carolina: 61,227, Oregon: 59,465, Louisiana: 55,381, Kentucky: 53,750, Tennessee: 40,431, Utah: 39,135, Rhode Island: 39,075, Hawaii: 35,360, Alabama: 35,262, New Mexico: 30,299, Nevada: 29,355, Alaska: 29,012, District of Columbia: 28,837, Iowa: 28,827, Maine: 27,367, New Hampshire: 26,487, West Virginia: 25,395, Delaware: 22,605, Kansas: 21,916, Idaho: 17,790, Oklahoma: 16,696, Vermont: 13,799, Nebraska: 10,948, Montana: 10,760, Mississippi: 9,505, Arkansas: 8,960, North Dakota: 8,402, Wyoming: 6,633, South Dakota: 5,421
Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment Tracker data is consolidated from The New York Times and US CDC, (#) is change from last update, see Reference detail in Compiled Information following Vaccine Tracker (last updated June 1) PRECLINICAL PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III EARLY/LIMITED APPROVED
~150+ 51 34 30 7 8
Vaccine candidates Vaccines testing Vaccines in expanded Vaccines in large- Vaccines approved for Vaccines approved being evaluated safety and dosage safety trials scale efficacy tests early or limited use for full use
Early/Limited Use (in country): CanSinoBIO Biologics (China), Gamaleya Research Institute (Russia), Sinovac Biotech (China), Sinopharm - Wuhan (China), Vector Institute (Russia), Chumakov (Russia), Anhui Zhifei Longcom (China), QazVac (Kazakhstan) Emergency Use (in country): Pfizer-BioNTech (US and elsewhere), Moderna (US), AstraZeneca/University of Oxford (Britain, Canada and elsewhere), Bharat Biotech (India), Sinopharm-Beijing (China, UAE, Bahrain), Johnson & Johnson (US, Bahrain, Canada) Approved (in country): Pfizer-BioNTech (multiple countries), Moderna (Canada and multiple countries), Sputnik V (Mexico), Sinovac (China), Beijing Institute of Biological Products-Sinopharm (China), Sinopharm-Wuhan (China), Oxford/AstraZeneca (Brazil), EpiVacCorona (Turkmenistan) New additions and recent updates: • The West China Hospital of Sichuan University moves to Phase 3 – June 1 • China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences moves to Phase 3 – June 1 • A vaccine from the French company Sanofi moves to Phase 3 – May 28 • Pennsylvania-based VaxForm enters Phase 1 – May 25 • China’s Stemirna Therapeutics enters Phase 1 – May 20 • China authorizes Shenzhen Kangtai’s vaccine for emergency use – May 18 • France’s OSE Immunotherapeutics enters Phase 1 - May 14 • The FDA authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 12 to 15 – May 10 • The WHO gives emergency use authorization to the Sinopharm vaccine – May 7 • Russia authorizes a one-dose version of the Gamaleya vaccine, dubbed “Sputnik Light” – May 6 • China’s Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products enters Phase 1/2 - May 6 • Denmark announces it will no longer use Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine – May 3 • Baltimore-based Elixirgen Therapeutics enters Phase 1/2 - May 1
Drug and Treatment Tracker (last updated May 29)
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3 (2) 3 1 13 4 3 FDA Approved Tentative or mixed Pseudoscience or Widely used Promising evidence Not promising (Emergency) evidence fraud
FDA Approved: Remdesivir, Monoclonal antibodies – Bamlanivimab/Etesevimab/REGN-COV2 (emergency use), Regeneron (emergency use) Widely Used: Prone positioning, ventilators and other respiratory support devices, Dexamethasone and Other Corticosteroids Promising: Azithromycin Pseudoscience or fraud: Drinking or injecting bleach and disinfectants, UV light, Silver New additions and recent updates: The US warns that some coronavirus variants are proving resistant to the combination of bamlanivimab and etesevimab – May 26 The FDA pushes back against claims that leronlimab is effective against Covid-19 – May 18 Moved blood filtration from “mixed evidence” to “not promising” – May 18 Moved cytokine inhibitors from “promising” to “mixed evidence” – May 18 Moved dexamethasone from “promising” to “widely used” – May 5 Trial data shows that the antiviral molnupiravir is unlikely to help hospitalized patients – Apr 19 US Restrictions Data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation, updated normally weekly, Table available at CVOB website for sorting US Restrictions and Policy Actions - June 1 (previous update May 24) Status of Reopening Reopened (39: +6); Easing Restrictions (12: -6), New Restrictions Imposed (0)
Stay at Home Order Stay at Home Order Lifted (45: +1); New Stay at Home Order in Place (0: -1), No Action (6) Mandatory Quarantine for Travelers Traveler Quarantine Mandate in Place (3); Traveler Quarantine Mandate Lifted (29); No Action (19) Non-Essential Business Closures All Non-Essential Businesses Open (41: +5); Some or All Non-Essential Businesses Open with Limits (10: -5)
Large Gatherings Ban All Gatherings Prohibited (1); >10 Prohibited (3: -3); >25 Prohibited (1: -1) ;>50 Prohibited (4: +1); Limit > 50 (2: -3); No Limit (40: +6) Restaurant Limits Open (44: +3); Open with Service Limits (7: -3), Closed to Indoor Service (0) Bar Closures Open (43: +3); Open with Service Limits (6: -3); Open for Outdoor Service Only (1); Closed (1)
Face Covering Requirement Yes (2: -3); Indoor Only (1); Unvaccinated People Only (15: +2); No (33: +1)
Emergency Declaration Yes (46); No (5)
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Back-to-Normal Index The Moody’s Analytics and CNN Business US Back-to-Normal Index is comprised of 37 national and seven state-level indicators, ranges from 0% - representing no economic activity, to 100% - representing the economy returning to its pre- pandemic level in March, and is updated weekly on Fridays for Wednesday numbers As of Wednesday, May 26, the Index was 91.0% (+1%), with 45 (+1) states showing improvement since the previous week Recent Historical Trending
Jan - 7-Apr 3-Feb 3-Mar 5-May 27 28-Apr 21-Apr 14-Apr 24-Feb 17-Feb 10-Feb 31-Mar 24-Mar 17-Mar 10-Mar 26-May 26-May 19-May 12-May
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