Morris, Max From: Morris, Max Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 7:21 PM To: Morris, Max Subject: 06/03/2021 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. And be sure to get fully vaccinated to not only protect yourself but others. Need to find a vaccine? Here are a few good sites and resources we have come across that may help: White House Vaccine Resource - Website to make it easier for people to find information, https://www.vaccines.gov/, and people can also text their zip code to 438829 to find out information about vaccination sites. 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 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 CVOB Website Dashboard, 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/. REMINDER: Please take a few minutes and complete our CVOB Survey to help us better understand how we can continue to provide you with the most value with our website and emails. The Survey will be open until EoD Thursday, June 10 and can be found at CVOB Update Feedback Survey (2021) (sunknighty.net) 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.