Morris, Max From: Morris, Max Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 11:38 PM To: Morris, Max Subject: 03/22/2021 Coronavirus Daily Recap This email is provided for informational, non-commercial purposes only. Use or reliance on the information contained in this email is at your sole risk. This email is not provided by or affiliated in any way with Ally Financial Inc. These updates are being shared to multiple organizations, individuals and lists who/which are bcc’d. Best effort we are sending Daily updates during the business week, typically in the evening, a Weekend Recap on Monday mornings, and any significant breaking news events provided anytime. Please note some numbers included in the Statistics and news stories come from various sources and so can vary as they are constantly changing and not reported at the same time. All communications are TLP GREEN and can be shared freely. Know someone who might want to be added to our Updates? Of course ask them first, and then have them send us an email to [email protected]. Live the message, share the message: Be safe – Stay home and limit travel as much as possible, self-quarantine if you or any members of your family are or may be sick, if you go out wear your mask – the right way, ensure safe social distancing, and practice good hygiene – wash your hands, avoid touching your face, and sanitize used items and surfaces. Need to find a vaccine? Here are a few good sites and resources we have come across that may help: CDC Vaccine Finder – https://vaccinefinder.org/ [Free government website where users can search for pharmacies and providers that offer vaccinations, currently limited number of states but expanding] Dr. B Standby list for COVID vaccines - https://hidrb.com/ [Sign-up website that connects eligible adults with leftover vaccines at risk of expiring] NBC News Plan Your Vaccine – https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vaccine/ [Website that walks you through eligibility, a timeline for when you can get vaccinated and where you can get a vaccine] Apple Maps App [Use the app to find vaccination location data from the US CDC's Vaccine Finder by searching or asking Siri, “Where can I get a Covid-19 vaccination?] Facebook Locator Tool [Access the social media’s Covid Information Center to see when and where to get vaccinated and get a link to make an appointment] Well hello there Everyone! A little later than usual but we weren’t going to forget ya. So, how was your Monday? We hope you had a great start to the first day of our new week. Yes, we already have one day in the books. Let’s keep that strong start going. Following are the 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. We’ve included a NEW couple of resources following to help with the new stimulus checks being sent out that we hope will help you figure out how much you may be getting and where the payment is. Tonight, we came across some inspiration from storyteller and author Brad Formsma, who offered us these words of wisdom to ponder: Whoever you are, no matter how much or how little you have to share, making the decision to give regularly to others - daily, weekly, or monthly - will enrich your life and change the lives of the people around you. Sharing. No matter what it is. No matter how small or insignificant it may seem. Just one act of kindness. It could be paying for someone’s coffee behind you in the drive-thru line. Saying thank you to a front-line worker at the grocery store. Letting someone know that you are thinking about them and just saying hi how are you. It doesn’t take much effort at all. And the reward you get back will be ten-fold. All you have to do is remember. So tomorrow find something to lift someone’s day. And tell me if it doesn’t bring a warm fuzzy to your heart and soul . Want to get information on the latest stimulus checks? Here are two sites that can help: 1 NEW Want to check on the status of your stimulus payment? Use the Get My Payment tool at https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment to check if it has been scheduled. NEW Want to find out how much your stimulus check will be? Use the CNN calculator at https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/politics/third-stimulus-check-calculator/index.html. CVOB Website individual US State, US County, Global Trending Charts and Data as well as US Vaccinations, US Restrictions and our Communications Archive can be found at https://www.sunknighty.net/. Headlines New cases of Covid-19 are once again on the rise across more than half of the US and the recent drop in hospitalizations is slowing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned Monday, adding that she's worried the country could see "another avoidable surge" of Covid-19 sparked by variants if mitigation measures – such as mask-wearing, physical distancing and avoiding crowds or travel – are not followed. The White House is encouraging governors, as well as the private sector, to maintain or reimpose coronavirus restrictions as new case rates remain high and some states are lifting guidelines, with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky saying Monday the administration is working to “slow down the relaxation” but some states have lifted restrictions on restaurant capacity and other retail businesses in recent weeks, with some states relaxing mask mandates. About 1 in 4 people in the US - nearly 83 million people - have received at least one dose of vaccine, and more than 1 in 8 - about 45 million people - have been fully vaccinated, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Monday shows. More than two-dozen travel-industry groups are urging the Biden administration to lift international travel restrictions for vaccinated individuals and other measures to revive demand for trips, and Airlines for America - which represents most large U.S. carriers, as well as the largest flight attendant union, hotel and airport associations and the US Chamber of Commerce - called on the White House to come up with a “roadmap” by May 1 toward rescinding travel bans that have devastated international air travel with Europe. DoorDash announced Monday it will begin same-day deliveries of US Food and Drug Administration authorized Covid-19 PCR tests across the US, and in a new release the online food and product delivery platform says it teamed up with digital health companies Vault Health and Everlywell, giving consumers access to “two COVID-19 home collection kits that received FDA Emergency Use Authorization.” Maria van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for coronavirus response, said Monday that global cases of Covid-19 have risen for the fifth consecutive week, and that the agency is seeing worrying trends in Europe, as well as number of areas, with four of the five regions reporting an increase in transmission. Germany is extending its lockdown until April 18 and calling on citizens to stay at home for five days over the Easter holidays to try to break a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said early on Tuesday. Ontario, Canada’s largest province, declared it was at the beginning of a third wave of the pandemic Monday, pointing to increasing case counts, hospitalizations and variants of concern, sobering news for the majority of residents who have been in some state of lockdown since late last year. The second batch of Covid-19 stimulus checks will be issued this week, the Biden administration announced Monday, with many of the payments expected to come via paper check or prepaid debit card and additional batches will be made weekly going forward, according to a statement from the US Department of the Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Microsoft said that starting March 29 more employees can return to its Washington headquarters, with the company allowing employees who work at its Redmond sites and nearby campuses to choose between returning to work full-time, continuing to work remotely or implementing a hybrid model. Dealing with stress during the pandemic has caused physical changes for many Americans - some have gained undesired weight, and others have unintentionally lost weight, with a American Psychological Association's Stress in America pandemic survey that polled 3,013 adults in the US finding that the majority, 61%, experienced undesired weight changes, with forty-two percent of adults gaining more weight than they intended, of those, the amount they reported gaining averaged 29 pounds, and ten percent said they gained more than 50 pounds. 2 Krispy Kreme launched a new program Monday to give a free doughnut to customers who present their coronavirus vaccine cards, a deal that started today and lasts through the rest of 2021, the North Carolina-based company announced in a release, with customers able to bring their valid coronavirus vaccination cards to any shop in the US every day for the rest of the year to get a free Original Glazed doughnut — one per day. The Good Stuff: A Virginia resident has become a popular person in her neighborhood and across the region for her ability to get COVID-19 vaccination appointments on websites that other people find excruciatingly difficult to navigate.