Mitigation

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's series of teleconferences on COVID-19 and vaccine distribution continues this week.

At the current rate of 1.32 million shots a day, every adult in the US could be fully vaccinated in about a year, and assuming 75% of adults must be fully vaccinated to achieve herd immunity, the country could reach the threshold around Halloween.

This latest update from FS-ISAC says the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Monday issued an improved economic outlook and said the labor market will return to full strength quicker than expected thanks to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

Amid a sometimes chaotic rollout of vaccines across the US, health experts say a glimmer of good news has emerged, with recent reports of cases in nursing homes having declined for the past four weeks, according to federal data.

Johnson & Johnson said Friday that its single-dose coronavirus vaccine was 72% effective in protecting against moderate and severe Covid-19 in the US, but was less potent in other regions.

New Covid-19 cases continue to trend downward, with 16% fewer cases reported this week than last, but 95% of the US population lives in a county that the federal government considers to be a “sustained hotspot," according to a report.