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Top Three Updates:
- A growing pool of global death statistics indicates that few countries are accurately capturing fatalities from the new coronavirus—and in some the shortfall is significant. [The Wall Street Journal]
- Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline laid out plans on Thursday to produce 1 billion doses of vaccine efficacy boosters, or adjuvants, next year as the race to develop and produce a successful solution to the coronavirus crisis heats up. [Reuters]
- As of Thursday morning, the U.S. had a total of 1,699,933 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 100,442 total deaths. [Axios]
Key Coronavirus News
- May 28 at 5:58 a.m. - Child-care experts say they are increasingly concerned that America’s child-care system, fragile even before the coronavirus pandemic, is in danger of collapse without substantial help from Congress. [The Washington Post]
- May 28 at 12:04 a.m. - Job cuts by U.S. state and local governments whose budgets have been crushed fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and more second-wave layoffs in the private sector likely contributed last week to a 10th straight week of more than 2 million Americans seeking unemployment benefits. [Reuters]
- May 27 - Just over four months after the government confirmed the first known case, more than 100,000 people who had the coronavirus have died in the United States. [The New York Times]
- May 27 at 8:00 p.m. - The Household Pulse Survey, which releases new data every Wednesday, found that in households with a child under the age of 18, 55 percent had at least one adult lose employment income since the start of the pandemic, higher than the rate for all households combined. [The Washington Post]
Government Updates on Coronavirus
- May 27 - Mayor de Blasio shared a release announcing the Test & Trace Corps’ “Take Care Initiative,” New York City's program to help all COVID positive New Yorkers safely separate to prevent the spread of the virus.
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