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| An alternate on the U.S. women's gymnastics team has tested positive for COVID-19. |
| Kara Eaker, 18, tested positive, coach Al Fong confirmed in a text message to USA TODAY Sports on Monday night. Leanne Wong, who trains with Eaker at GAGE outside of Kansas City, is also quarantining after being deemed a close contact, Fong said. |
| As USA TODAY's Christine Brennan writes: "Four days before the opening ceremony of the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Games' nightmare scenario has become a reality." Read more here. |
| It's Monday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know: |
| • | The American Academy of Pediatrics issued recommendations Monday for the 2021-22 school year that include everyone older than age 2 wearing masks, regardless of vaccination status. | | • | Others are calling for vaccinated people to mask up, too. "Instead of vax it OR mask it, the emerging data suggests CDC should be advising to vax it and mask it in areas with (rising) cases and positivity until we see numbers going back down again," former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said on Twitter. | | • | Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, said Monday that he has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus even though he was fully vaccinated. He said he is experiencing mild, flu-like symptoms. | | • | Two more Democratic Texas state lawmakers who fled to Washington, D.C., to stymie passage of a restrictive, GOP-backed voting law have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, according to Texas House Democratic Caucus leadership. That brings the total number to five. | | • | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will spend 10 days self-isolating after contact with a confirmed coronavirus case. | | • | Australia deported a far-right British commentator Monday after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach the country's quarantine rules. | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 34 million COVID-19 cases and 609,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 190.6 million cases and more than 4 million deaths. About 56% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 49% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. |
| Tracking the pandemic: See the numbers in your area here. See where cases are rising here. See vaccination rates here. And here, compare vaccinations rates worldwide and see which countries are using which vaccines. |
| – Grace Hauck, USA TODAY breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck |
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