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- Health: The warning signs of a longer pandemic — CDC director: Answer to Michigan COVID-19 surge is "to close things down."
- Vaccines: Former FDA chief offers reality check on vaccine passports.
- Economy: Jobs growth could be curbed by demands for higher wages.
- World: Facebook to push notifications about vaccine eligibility to 20 countries outside of the U.S. — Brits flock to pubs for first time in months as U.K. lockdown eases.
- Variant tracker: Where different strains are spreading.
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 1 p.m. ET on Monday: 136,209,405 — Total deaths: 2,939,142 — Total recoveries: 77,538,589 (no longer includes U.S. recoveries as of Dec. 15) — Map
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 1 p.m. ET on Monday: 31,209,794 — Total deaths: 562,141 — Total tests: 405,384,077 — 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
- 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.