Random and illustrative stories about the global pandemic and how businesses and various business sectors are trying to recover from it, with brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary…
• In the US, we've now had 80,770,604 total cases of the Covid-10 coronavirus, resulting in 979,725 deaths and 53,945,789 reported recoveries.
Globally, there have been 440,947,092 total cases, with 5,995,271 resultant fatalities and 373,881,693 reported recoveries. (Source.)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 76.4 percent of the US population has received at least one dose of vaccine … 65 percent is fully vaccinated … and 43.8 percent has received a vaccine booster dose. The CDC also points out that 49.9 percent of the US population eligible to get a booster shot has not received one.
• Bloomberg reports that "Apple Inc. plans to begin testing vaccinated retail staff twice a week for Covid-19, a step toward dropping its mask requirement for employees.
"The company announced the plan in a memo to U.S. retail staff Tuesday, changing a policy that had required vaccinated workers to test once a week. Unvaccinated staff had already been required to test twice weekly. At the same time, the company is now allowing employees to verify their results independently rather than providing proof."
