- Health: Patients can take more of COVID pill after relapse, Pfizer CEO says — COVID cases rise across bulk of the U.S. — CDC says majority of Americans have had COVID-19.
- Vaccines: Which age groups are eligible for the different COVID vaccines — Pressure builds for vaccines approval for littlest kids.
- Politics: Kamala Harris will return to work after negative COVID-19 test — Birx: U.S. should prepare for surge in the South — White House communications director tests positive.
- World: Omicron subvariants can evade immunity from past infection, study says — Beijing braces for COVID lockdown with mass testing and panic buying.
- Variant tracker
Cases:
- Global: Total confirmed cases as of 2:50 p.m. ET on Wednesday: 515,201,528 — Total deaths: 6,243,460 — Total vaccine doses administered: 11,318,759,082.
- U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 2:50 p.m. ET on Wednesday: 81,541,953 — Total deaths: 995,754.
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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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.
