- Health: Wastewater testing for diseases becoming the standard — Clear results elusive in long COVID studies.
- Vaccines: Most vaccinated people 50+ will get a booster, poll finds — Biden administration to begin offering updated booster shots in September.
- Politics: CDC loosens guidance on quarantining, social distancing for COVID-19.
- Economy: Sick days and vacations hit businesses this summer.
- World: Cruise ships return to New Zealand after COVID hiatus
- Deep dive: The Long COVID crisis.
- Variant tracker
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Friday: 589,010,134 — Total deaths: 6,432,856 — Total vaccine doses administered: 12,019,530,198
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 8:30 p.m. ET on Friday: 92,833,578 — Total deaths: 1,036,973
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
- Answers about the virus from Axios experts
- 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.