COVID-19 Pandemic Update: CDC Asks Americans To Wear Masks Indoors

Summary:

• The US is seeing the worst days of the pandemic and had its highest day of new cases — 217,664 — and deaths — 2,879, according to Johns Hopkins.
• Dr. Anthony Fauci warned: “January is going to be terrible,” with the outbreak expected to reach its worst level yet.
• San Francisco orders new lockdown
• Bay Area imposes stay at home order before the state
• Bay Area counties planning more restrictions
• CDC warns Americans to wear masks indoors
• Visitors to the Aspen area will soon have to prove they’re COVID-19 negative if they want to stay
• Bahrain second country to approve COVID vax
• Moderna CEO says 500MM doses likely next year
• Pennsylvania reports more than 11K new cases as outbreak surges
• CCP official claims 600MM vaccine doses are ready to go
• Biden Says Inauguration Will Resemble Virtual Convention
• Texas reports 4th-straight day of 10K+ new cases
• Delaware issues stay home advisory
• Mexico City hospitals are filling up, but so are the streets
• Norway says residents in nursing homes being given vaccine priority.
• New York’s hospitalizations topped 4,000 for the first time since May
• Texas saw its fourth straight day of 10K+ new virus cases, the longest streak since the peak of the initial outbreak in July.
• Delaware issued a stay-at-home advisory, halting in-person learning at schools, prohibiting winter sports competitions and requiring people to wear masks indoors if mixing with another household.
• Colorado said the virus could kill as many as 4,400 in the state this month
• A Glaxo-backed vaccine showed strong immune response in an early trial.
• Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike asked citizens to avoid unnecessary outings and refrain from venturing out as much as possible to help stanch a new surge in coronavirus infections.
• Residents in nursing homes will be given priority when vaccinations start, Health and Care Services Minister Bent Hoie says in a press conference in Oslo.
• More than 10 states broke their daily records yesterday, according to the CTP: AK, AR, AZ, DE, IN, MA, ME, NJ, PA, RI, and VT. CTP clarified that while AZ appears to show a higher daily count on Dec. 1, that was actually due to a data backlog from the Thanksgiving holiday week.