President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the US will have a large enough supply of coronavirus vaccines by the end of May to inoculate every adult in the nation. Biden declined to estimate when things might return to “ normal, ” and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have warned that the United States is far from being herd immunity – that is, when enough people in a given community have antibodies against a specific disease. But on Tuesday, the Texas and Mississippi governors both announced they were lifting mask mandates and allowing companies to reopen in full force in their states.
The US records at least 65,400 new Covid-19 cases and at least 1,900 virus-related deaths every day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC based on data from Johns Hopkins University.
The following data was collected by Johns Hopkins University:
- Worldwide cases: more than 114.89 million
- Worldwide deaths: At least 2.55 million
- US cases: more than 28.72 million
- American dead: at least 517,000