The White House will host 1,000 people at its (outdoor) July 4th celebration, which is its de facto Covid independence day, per Biden's Covid coordinator, Jeff Zients.
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) June 22, 2021
The White House says more than 70% of Americans age 30 or older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That's even though President Biden will fall short of his goal of giving a shot to the same percentage of all U.S. adults by July 4th. https://t.co/56rM87IWeV
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 22, 2021
The US had +9,306 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total further above 34.4 million. The 7-day moving average declined to 11,502 new cases per day, its lowest level since March 26, 2020. pic.twitter.com/MYn2KgufmA
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 22, 2021
As many as 16.8 million Americans had undiagnosed #SARSCoV2 infections—5x the rate of diagnosed infections—by July 2020, estimates a new @ScienceTM analysis of antibodies from more than 8,000 undiagnosed adults. https://t.co/eluBlK2n3n #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/2vtbU914lN
— Science Magazine (@ScienceMagazine) June 22, 2021
NEW: Nearly 900 secret service employees caught Covid, most of them responsible for protecting government officials and buildings https://t.co/Aj7YcU2AsL
— Brody Ford (@BrodyFord_) June 22, 2021
Roughly 13% of the Secret Service's workforce.https://t.co/gi8Sw1jvcU
— Alex Wayne (@aawayne) June 22, 2021
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India reports 50,848 new COVID-19 cases https://t.co/SGscRLYkQj pic.twitter.com/a1RlJ99OqK
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2021
India administers 8 million coronavirus jabs in a single dayhttps://t.co/EMuIebN298
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2021
'Harder than Everest': record-breaking female climber stranded in Nepal amid COVID crisis https://t.co/epqkjw7Svx pic.twitter.com/KCfgqI4ACq
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 22, 2021
China's COVID-hit Shenzhen suspends direct flights to Beijing https://t.co/jm4zL3RmF2 pic.twitter.com/ceqLmnM3v0
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2021
Does Japan have coronavirus under control?#BBCRealityCheck look at the country's progress, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympicshttps://t.co/qHbtW17MUk
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2021
Sydney faces new restrictions as Covid cluster grows https://t.co/exkziaG17U
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 23, 2021
New Zealand raised the COVID-19 alert level in Wellington amid concerns that the city may have been exposed to the highly infectious Delta variant that has triggered a fresh outbreak in neighboring Australia https://t.co/Nbyg8IMqil pic.twitter.com/TFdDCGjes1
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2021
Russia has confirmed 17,594 new coronavirus cases and 548 deaths, with both Moscow and St. Petersburg setting new record single-day death tolls https://t.co/CytrK05H1L
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 23, 2021
And then the Russian team… did not win:
Russian Football Fans Rally Amid New Virus Spike pic.twitter.com/ku6K2GcDpc
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 22, 2021
Moscow authorities have eased online registration rules to allow vaccinated or negative-tested foreigners to obtain QR codes needed to dine at “Covid-free” restaurantshttps://t.co/fPvmvFJfd6
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 23, 2021
Several Russian volunteers who say they were given a less effective coronavirus vaccine instead of the Sputnik V jab they had signed up for are considering pursuing legal action.https://t.co/lghHYRWuz2
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) June 22, 2021
Rollout of Covid vaccines in European Union countries is picking up speed, with more than 300 million jabs administeredhttps://t.co/bZAFlL4nkI
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2021
German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Moderna as second Covid jab after AstraZeneca shot https://t.co/3yBS0fSUmC
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2021
Why has the Delta Covid variant spread so quickly in UK? https://t.co/9CvK0uGcqW
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 23, 2021
Covid surge in Africa raises fears of a calamity like India’s. The pandemic is worsening in Africa as more contagious variants spread, vaccinations lag and hospitals in some places are pushed beyond their limits https://t.co/yfK1UJlnZn
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 22, 2021
Supply shortages in many African countries are holding back the continuing rollout of their vaccination programmes, experts warn#BBCRealityCheck looks at the datahttps://t.co/htP3M2pi0B
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 22, 2021
Colombia registers 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 this week, becoming just the 10th country in the world to hit the grim milestone. https://t.co/uoyTZRTsSR
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 23, 2021
Brazil reports 87,822 new coronavirus cases, 2,131 deaths https://t.co/avu9OLFKxj pic.twitter.com/n8EbLUbqQ2
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2021
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Key paragraph from the piece and outstanding thread by @suilee reinforcing concerns that these vaccines will not help our quest for global containment https://t.co/mioJxHZs9a pic.twitter.com/c9ChKclOBu
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 23, 2021
Analysis: From game-changer to back-up: J&J's COVID vaccine struggles in Europe https://t.co/FpMyzdxygK pic.twitter.com/SBLjTCht2A
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 23, 2021
Delta Plus: Should the world be worried about the new Covid-19 variant? https://t.co/PE5pikDm8H
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 23, 2021
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A watchdog says deaths of Medicare patients in nursing homes soared 32% last year amid COVID-19. The Department of Health and Human Services inspector general found about 4 in 10 had or likely had the virus and deaths jumped 169,291 over the year before. https://t.co/4lfC6wYrhX
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) June 22, 2021
One of those workers, a nurse named Jennifer Bridges, said she’s already found work at a firm and is planning a protest at Houston Methodist this weekend.
She excused herself from an interview with The Post to take a protest-planning call from InfoWars founder Alex Jones. pic.twitter.com/9qL0f3MPqD
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 22, 2021
The latest on NY State & #Covid19
– 58,372 tested yesterday: 0.43% were positive
– 7-day average was 0.37% +
– 114 patients in ICU yesterday, 62 intubated
– 10 deaths yesterday
– 71.0% of adults have completed at least one #vaccine dose.
Keep it up, New York! ? pic.twitter.com/Vzsu8felWR— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 22, 2021
“You have three choices: You get fully vaccinated, you had prior COVID infection and maybe a reduced risk, or three, you get delta COVID”https://t.co/GdpqGmMiQs by @erinallday @sfchronicle
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 22, 2021
Despite considerable pushback, I stand by my controversial opinion that dying is bad. It’s a hill I’m willing to live on.
That's why I applaud the University of Illinois COVID-19 vaccine mandate. All state and private universities do the same.https://t.co/lnW5fAYUQh
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) June 22, 2021
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