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| America's delta-driven surge of COVID-19 has entered a deadlier phase. |
| Deaths are now increasing in 43 states — the worst tally since December, before America's deadliest month of the pandemic, a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. |
| U.S. deaths in the week ending Monday totaled 7,225. At that pace, America experiences the loss of a Pearl Harbor attack three times a week, or the human cost of a 9/11 attack every three days. |
| The face of who is dying is also changing quickly. Deaths are increasingly centered among white non-Hispanic people, and the share of deaths among young people is jumping, too, federal data shows. |
| It's Tuesday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know. |
| • | Businesses, schools and governments announced new vaccine requirements for some or all of their employees after the FDA issued full approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. They included: CVS, the University of Michigan, Chevron, the city of Chicago, and New York and New Jersey's public schools. | | • | Dr. Anthony Fauci said the FDA announcement and subsequent vaccine requirements might help the U.S. get a handle on the disease by next year. "I hope we can start to get some good control in the spring of 2022," Fauci told CNN. | | • | The Supreme Court is expected to decide in the coming days whether to block President Joe Biden's eviction moratorium. Millions of Americans are behind on rent and could face eviction if the high court stops the CDC-ordered moratorium, while property owners say they've had to pay their own expenses for months. | | • | Kentucky will send National Guard members to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients and facing a nursing shortage, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. The announcement came as the state broke its records for hospitalizations, patients in ICUs and patients on ventilators. | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 37.9 million COVID-19 cases and 629,700 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 212.8 million cases and more than 4.4 million deaths. About 61% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 52% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Among U.S. adults, 73% have received at least one shot, and about 63% are fully vaccinated. |
| 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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