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…
• The United States now has had a total of 82,553,058 total cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus, resulting in 1,017,609 deaths and 80,355,389 reported recoveries.
Globally, there have been 507,854,253 total cases, with 6,236,480 resultant fatalities and 460,229,752 reported recoveries. (Source.)
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 77.4 percent of the total US population has received at least one dose of vaccine … 66 percent are fully vaccinated … and 45.5 percent of fully vaccinated people have received a vaccine booster dose - virtually unchanged over the past few days.