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- Vaccines: The barriers to vaccine passports — U.S. ahead of pace on vaccine.
- Health: Why we need to know COVID's origins— CDC: Easing mask mandates led to higher COVID cases and deaths — A worrying decline in COVID testing.
- Economy: U.S. economy added 379,000 jobs in February.
- Politics: Senate passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief package.
- World: Coronavirus variants driving another surge across Europe.
- States: California theme parks, sports stadiums can begin reopening April 1 — West Virginia lifts COVID capacity limits on restaurants, many businesses — Oregon governor orders all public schools to reopen by mid-April.
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday: 116,341,065 — Total deaths: 2,583,908— Total recoveries: 65,752,287 (no longer includes U.S. recoveries as of Dec. 15) — Map
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 6:45 p.m. ET on Saturday: 28,943,697 — Total deaths: 524,164 — Total tests: 357,214,952 — Map
What should I do? Axios asked the experts:
- Which states mandate face coverings
- 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.