16 May 2021 Coronavirus Charts and News: The Media Continues To Debate The New CDC Guidance On Masks

Written by Steven Hansen

The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 20.9 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 11.3 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today’s posts include:

• U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 29,017
• U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 559
• U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 80.3 doses per 100 people.
• The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases were little changed and deaths were little changed
• Essential workers raise concerns about new CDC mask guidance; mask mandates fall in some states, remain in others
• Here’s why the C.D.C. changed its mask advice.
• Hormone Drugs May Disarm Coronavirus Spike Protein and Stop COVID-19 Disease Progression
• Why should we take an experimental mRNA vaccine for a virus that 99.7% of people outside of nursing homes will easily survive?
• Honor system, paper cards won’t cut it for COVID vaccine verification, experts say. ‘Vaccine passports’ are coming
• Everyone agrees that the global supply of coronavirus vaccines needs to greatly expand

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