- Eighteen months into the pandemic, the COVID-19 death toll has now topped 4 million worldwide, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
- The Tokyo Olympics will take place without spectators, organizers said on Thursday. The resurgence of COVID-19 has forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will continue throughout the event, reported Reuters.
- In an interview set to air Friday on SiriusXM, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that most vaccinated people will be safe without a mask. "If you’re a healthy person, you really don’t have to wear a mask indoors or outdoors because the protection that’s afforded to you by the vaccines that we have available, particularly the mRNA vaccines that are 94 and 95% effective, 93, 94, 95," He said. "You’re really very, very highly protected."
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