| Editor’s Note. The global scramble to lock in vaccine supplies once they are available is well underway. Israel is in talks with Moderna to buy its vaccine, and Japan is now talking to AstraZeneca and Moderna about large-scale purchases of eventual vaccines. The rich countries are moving forward, and presumably the U.S. is locking in its supply agreements with firms like Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, Merck and AstraZeneca because of manufacturing support resources it is already providing. It’s not surprising that rich and powerful states are trying to lock in deals, but who will advocate for Sri Lanka, Burma, Djibouti or Croatia? Or even more powerful but important mid-level countries such as Iraq, Ecuador and Lebanon — that Ian Bremmer told me may be on the verge of economic meltdowns akin to the developing nation's financial crisis we saw in the 1980s. Bremmer commented that we are in a G-Zero world where there is no single engine, nor even two, driving the global system, and that what we have instead is a cacophony of lack of coordination and collectively pursued goals. The world is not working together, and what the rich, powerful nations locking down their supplies of COVID-19 vaccines don’t understand is that the world needs to be thought of as a whole. Developing countries will need options to vaccinate their own populations and if we don’t think of a worldwide response, the virus will come back and it will attack — even a society that thinks that a vaccine in hand is enough. With vaccine rates in the U.S. today less than 50 percent, there is huge population vulnerability even when a vaccine is finally secured. We have to fight for those without the resources of the rich because the health of people in poorer nations connects directly to those in more well-off corners of the world. – Steve Clemons Your Coronavirus Report team includes Steve Clemons, editor-at-large of The Hill, and researcher Andrew Wargofchik. Follow us on Twitter at @SCClemons and @a_wargofchik. 👉 Click here to subscribe to The Hill’s Coronavirus Report 👉 Click here to subscribe to our Overnight Healthcare Newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things coronavirus |
| There are 7,960,856 reported cases of COVID-19 throughout the world and 434,388 have died from the virus as of the time of this newsletter. The U.S. is reporting 2,100,749 cases and 115,827 deaths. Brazil 867,624. Russia 536,484. India 332,424. U.K. 298,310. Spain 244,109. Italy 237,920. Peru 229,736. France 194,153. Iran 189,876. Germany 187,682. Turkey 178,239. Chile 179,436. Mexico 146,837. Pakistan 144,478. Elsewhere around the globe:
> Beijing has set about testing hundreds of thousands of people for the virus in an exhaustive effort to stamp out a new eruption of the disease in the Chinese capital. > France’s health minister said the worst of the epidemic is behind the country. > Saudi Arabia is blaming a new surge in cases on young people ignoring social distancing guidelines. > Pakistan records 100,000 new cases in the month since reopening. > Greece has reopened to some foreign visitors in a bid to kick-start tourism. New U.S. hot spots are continuing emerge on the heels of states’ reopening. Between the nationwide protests that continue to draw huge crowds in major cities and Trump’s scheduled rally this weekend that has garnered over 100,000 RSVPs, the virus is bound to continue its spread across the U.S. Observations on up-cropping U.S. outbreaks from The Hill’s Reid Wilson: Week-over-week increases: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, FL, GA, HI, KS, LA, MS, MT, NV, NC, OK, OR, SC, SD, TX, WY Two straight weeks of decline: CO, DE, DC, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MN, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VA, WI > Alabama is in the midst of a serious outbreak, with its four worst days all happening since Thursday. On Sunday, it recorded a record 1,014 cases. The state is up to 25,615 cases and 773 deaths. > Alaska reported its worst day yet on Saturday, +34 cases. Up to 734, with 10 deaths. > Arizona's two worst days so far came Friday and Saturday, +1,600 each day. The state is up to 35,953 cases and 1,194 deaths. > Arkansas's worst day yet came Friday, +731 cases. Up to 12,501 and 179 deaths. > California cases are spiking, they've had two of their worst days yet on Thursday and Friday. Total cases at 152,937 and 5,089 deaths. > Florida had its worst two days Saturday and Sunday, topping 2,000 cases both days. Up to 75,560 cases and 2,930 deaths. Week-over-week count has doubled in two weeks. > Georgia had its worst day Saturday (+977) since the end of April. > Hawaii's long streak of single-digit case increases is over. The state reported 36 cases in the past three days. > Louisiana had its worst day on Saturday since early April. It reported 1,288 new cases, up to 46,732, and 3,014 deaths. > Massachusetts is showing real progress, after last week's blip in new probable cases. Up just 2,167 last week, half the growth of two weeks prior. > Michigan is making similar progress despite the blip last week, up 1,631 cases, which is 1,000 fewer than two weeks before. Daily case growth rates are about one-third of a percent. > Mississippi had its worst day yet on Friday, +608 cases. Up to 19,516 cases and 891 deaths. > New Jersey's week-over-week case growth is down to about one-tenth of what it was at its peak. Still a lot, +2,717, but progress. New York, too, down to one-tenth of its peak. > Oklahoma's two worst days yet have been Friday and Saturday, up 220+ each day. Total cases 8,231, and 359 have died. > Oregon has reported more than 100 new cases on seven of the last 10 days, after only topping 100 cases once before. Total of 5,644 cases and 176 deaths. > South Carolina had its worst day yet on Sunday, +840 cases. Seeing a real spike here. Up to 18,795 cases and 600 deaths. > Texas has had its worst days yet on four of the past five days, north of 2,000 new cases a day. Total stands at 89,542 cases and 1,995 deaths.
The U.S. is reporting 23,535,104 COVID-19 test results and 561,816 full recoveries from the coronavirus. |
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