- Health: Broadway theaters will require masks through June — The pandemic pushed an exodus from public schools — COVID cases rise in almost every state.
- Vaccines: Which age groups are eligible for the different COVID vaccines — CDC director authorizes Pfizer COVID booster for children 5-11.
- Politics: Federal judge blocks Biden from ending COVID border policy — Fauci says he won’t stay if Trump is re-elected — Biden orders flags at half-staff for 1 million deaths.
- Deep dive: The Long COVID crisis.
- Variant tracker
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 9:30 p.m. ET on Friday: 526,627,134 — Total deaths: 6,287,461 — Total vaccine doses administered: 11,437,710,847.
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 9:30 p.m. ET on Friday: 83,194,060 — Total deaths: 1,002,022.
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.