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COVID-19 Briefing - 217.1 Warren C. Evans December 15, 2020 Wayne County Executive For Operational Period: December 14, 2020 Situational Awareness

Worldwide  Now that the FDA has given Pfizer's COVID the green light, the return to normalcy is 73,302,083 Cases creeping closer. Dr. Anthony Fauci has made a few predictions about when the U.S. would be 1,630,689 Deaths able to go back to normal. According to Fauci, how swiftly we get back to normal is reliant on how many people get vaccinated. "If we have a smooth program where everybody United States steps to the plate quickly, we could get back to some form of normality reasonably quickly into 16,942,980 Cases the summer and certainly into the fall," Said Fauci.—BestLife 308,091 Deaths  Germany will enter a hard lockdown from Wednesday (Dec. 16), with non-essential stores shuttered, employers urged to close workplaces and school children encouraged to remain at Michigan home. The tighter restrictions-- including a ban on gatherings over the New Year -- will last until 472,780 Cases at least Jan. 10, after a looser shutdown failed to halt a surge in daily coronavirus infections and 11,289 Deaths deaths.—Bloomberg  A biotech conference in Boston last February that's already been flagged as a COVID-19 super- Out-Wayne County spreading event led to at least 333,000 other cases across the US and Europe, a new genetic 48,579 Cases fingerprinting study shows. One single case seems to have been responsible for 245,000 other 1,605 Deaths eventual cases, the team at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts reported.—CNN  Michigan’s small businesses that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 virus will be able to apply for grants of up to $15,000 through the Pure Michigan Small Business Relief Initiative, announced by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The program will utilize $10 million in federal U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CARES Act funding to provide economic assistance to small businesses across Michigan.—Michigan.gov

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