Omicron dashboard: Catch up fast
Published Date: 2/12/2022
Source: axios.com
- Health: FDA authorizes new antibody treatment for Omicron — Unlocking the mystery of the "never COVID" cohort — Cases are plummeting, and deaths could decline soon.
- Vaccines: Experts praise Pfizer's delay on kids' vaccines — Chicago White Sox to require COVID vaccines for minor league players — Pfizer postpones FDA request for COVID vaccine for kids under 5 — What it takes to persuade the unvaccinated.
- Politics: Supreme Court rejects request to block vaccine mandate for NYC teachers — Nevada governor rescinds indoor mask mandate — Republican lawmakers target GoFundMe over Canadian mandate protests.
- Business: Major American banks lift mask mandates in U.S. offices — Pandemic pushes teachers to pivot careers.
- World: Canadian judge grants order allowing removal of protesters blocking border bridge — Boris Johnson signals early end to U.K. restrictions.
- Variant tracker
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday: 409,749,157 — Total deaths: 5,807,665 — Total vaccine doses administered: 10,188,841,308 — Map
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday: 77,701,600— Total deaths: 919,172 — Map
What should I do? Axios asked the experts:
- When you can be around others after contracting the coronavirus
- Traveling, asthma, dishes, disinfectants and being contagious
- Masks, lending books and self-isolating
- Exercise, laundry, what counts as soap
- Pets, moving and personal health
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- What to know about social distancing
- How to minimize your risk
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Editor's note: Johns Hopkins University stopped reporting U.S. COVID-19 recoveries on its dashboard on Dec. 15, citing a Coronavirus Tracking Project post that explained the national data is incomplete since several states do not keep records of recovered patients. It stopped reporting global recoveries and began reporting doses administered in May.