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    A10 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
TUESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
43°
LOW
25°
Mostly cloudy and cooler
Milder with sunshine and
patchy clouds
ALMANAC
THURSDAY
61°
42°
52°
30°
Partly cloudy
FRIDAY
58°
36°
Cloudy; breezy in the
afternoon
Clouds limiting sun
SATURDAY
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
52°
51° 74° in 1934
32°
27°
-9° in 1906
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.90" in 1987
Month to date (normal)
0.08" (0.35")
Year to date (normal)
1.17" (2.97")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.84"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Tue.
Sun
7:17am/7:12pm 7:16am/7:13pm
Moon
8:37am/9:42pm 8:58am/10:44pm
Mercury 6:30am/4:52pm 6:29am/4:55pm
Venus
7:20am/6:54pm 7:18am/6:56pm
Mars
10:11am/1:31am 10:09am/1:30am
Jupiter
5:59am/4:02pm 5:56am/4:00pm
Saturn
5:32am/3:11pm 5:28am/3:07pm
Uranus 8:56am/10:53pm 8:52am/10:49pm
First
Full
Last
New
Mar 21
Mar 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Tonight's sky: Leo, the Lion, emerging from
the east; Aries, the Ram, fading in the west.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
2
3
3
2
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Clouds and sun today.
Plenty of clouds tonight.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Mostly cloudy today.
Patchy clouds tonight. Dry tomorrow.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Intervals of clouds
and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Mainly cloudy
today. Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Partial
sunshine tomorrow.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Mostly cloudy and
very cold today with a snow shower.
SKI REPORT
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
0
0-90
Hoodoo Ski Area
0
0-95
Mt. Ashland
0
62-68
Mt. Bachelor
0
105-123
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
0-209
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
0
65-90
Timberline Lodge
0
0-177
Willamette Pass
0
0-65
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
10
47-68
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
65-100
Squaw Valley, CA
0
0-119
Park City Mountain, UT
1
52-69
Sun Valley, ID
0
66-85
EAST: Mostly cloudy
Monday with rain
and snow showers
south. Snow levels
3,500 feet. Spotty rain
and snow showers
Monday night.
50°
25°
Mostly cloudy with a couple
of showers
Some sun with a couple of
showers possible
Hood
River
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
Yesterday
Today
Tuesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
48/42/0.46 47/31/c 49/32/pc
La Grande
59/26/0.00 41/29/pc 50/26/pc
Portland
52/43/0.10 50/31/c 54/33/pc
Baker City
63/24/0.00 45/29/pc 50/27/pc
La Pine
45/23/0.00 37/16/c 47/22/s
Prineville
53/27/0.00 45/24/pc 47/27/pc
Brookings
51/45/0.43 50/34/sh 51/36/pc
Medford
50/40/0.14 48/31/sh 53/31/pc
Redmond
53/25/0.00 42/21/c 51/25/pc
Burns
55/23/0.00 42/23/sn 48/24/pc
Newport
50/43/0.31 45/30/pc 47/32/pc
Roseburg
52/43/0.26 47/30/c 51/31/pc
Eugene
51/43/0.09 48/29/c 53/30/pc
North Bend
51/44/0.99 48/33/pc 50/34/pc
Salem
50/40/0.15 48/28/c 52/30/pc
Klamath Falls
45/22/0.00 41/16/sn 47/20/pc
Ontario
64/27/0.00 56/36/c 55/31/pc
Sisters
49/24/0.00 44/25/c 55/27/pc
Lakeview
46/24/0.00 38/23/sn 48/23/s
Pendleton
57/30/0.02 48/34/pc 57/33/pc
The Dalles
52/32/0.00 51/31/pc 58/31/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Survivors
Long-term symptoms
Fatigue, shortness of breath, in-
somnia, trouble thinking clearly and
depression are among the many re-
ported symptoms. Organ damage,
including lung scarring and heart
inflammation, have also been seen.
Pinpointing whether these symptom
are directly linked to the virus or per-
haps to some preexisting condition is
among scientists’ tasks.
‘’Is it just a very delayed recovery
or is it something even more alarm-
ing and something that becomes the
new normal?’’ Collins said.
There are a few working theories
for what might be causing persistent
symptoms. One is that the virus re-
mains in the body at undetectable
levels yet still causes tissue or organ
damage. Or it overstimulates the im-
mune system, keeping it from return-
ing to a normal state. A third theory:
Symptoms linger or arise anew when
the virus attacks blood vessels, caus-
ing minute, undetectable blood clots
that can wreak havoc throughout the
body.
Some scientists think each of these
Today
Hi/Lo/W
74/54/s
43/36/pc
30/12/s
62/37/s
22/15/sn
68/54/r
43/40/pc
85/56/s
48/34/pc
52/33/c
77/63/r
42/27/c
58/32/c
29/18/s
36/24/s
34/25/pc
21/11/s
12/-1/pc
63/55/c
57/41/c
68/51/r
33/24/c
38/33/sn
43/39/r
42/36/pc
41/28/c
60/41/t
62/48/c
78/61/t
43/37/sh
24/11/s
76/66/sh
79/55/s
41/37/r
37/22/c
35/30/sn
39/31/pc
37/26/c
71/47/pc
9/-8/pc
39/27/pc
43/19/pc
39/28/pc
38/29/pc
51/37/c
45/33/pc
32/16/s
54/32/pc
81/68/sh
81/65/c
68/59/r
40/37/r
79/63/r
80/62/c
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
47/39/sh
64/50/pc
76/61/pc
77/58/pc
95/79/pc
56/32/pc
69/58/s
45/36/sh
63/50/t
53/35/pc
82/72/c
78/58/s
79/57/c
39/23/pc
84/78/pc
53/47/c
51/44/c
42/31/r
75/60/t
76/70/pc
62/47/pc
66/51/pc
78/61/pc
81/72/pc
69/52/s
53/43/c
65/40/s
87/79/t
47/41/0.65
64/48/0.00
70/59/0.01
72/48/0.00
93/79/0.00
54/42/0.00
64/55/0.00
44/40/0.12
66/50/0.13
50/45/0.16
84/72/0.00
81/55/0.00
73/52/0.00
64/30/0.00
82/72/0.02
50/39/0.45
46/38/0.01
45/38/0.47
74/58/0.10
77/67/0.00
59/41/0.00
63/45/0.00
77/58/0.00
82/70/0.00
66/48/0.00
50/39/0.24
61/32/0.00
86/76/0.01
worker in Detroit.
As an African American woman
with diabetes and high blood pres-
sure, she was at high risk for a bad
outcome and knows she’s lucky her
initial illness wasn’t more serious. But
her persistent symptoms and home
confinement got her down and de-
pression set in.
Political and racial unrest that
dominated the news didn’t help, and
church services — often her salvation
— were suspended. She knows all
that could have contributed to her ill
health and says listening to music —
R&B, jazz and a little country — has
helped her cope.
Still, Jefferies wants to know what
role the virus has played.
“I’m a year in, and to still from
time to time have lingering effects, I
just don’t understand that,’’ Jefferies
said.
Continued from A1
“We’re faced with a mystery,” said
Dr. Francis Collins, chief of the Na-
tional Institutes of Health.
Is it a condition unique to
COVID-19, or just a variation of the
syndrome that can occur after other
infections? How many people are af-
fected, and how long does it last? Is
it a new form of chronic fatigue syn-
drome — a condition with similar
symptoms?
Or could some symptoms be un-
related to their COVID-19 but a
physical reaction to the upheaval of
this past pandemic year — the lock-
downs, quarantines, isolation, job
losses, racial unrest, political turmoil,
not to mention overwhelming illness
and deaths?
These are the questions facing
scientists as they search for dis-
ease markers, treatments and cures.
With $1 billion from Congress,
Collins’ agency is designing and so-
liciting studies that aim to follow
at least 20,000 people who’ve had
COVID-19.
‘’We’ve never really been faced
with a post-infectious condition of
this magnitude so this is unprece-
dented,’’ Collins said March 8.
“We don’t have time to waste.’’
With nearly 30 million U.S. cases
of COVID-19 and 119 million world-
wide, the impact could be staggering,
even if only a small fraction of pa-
tients develop long-term problems.
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
69/51/0.11
Akron
51/34/0.00
Albany
41/25/Tr
Albuquerque
45/31/0.00
Anchorage
19/1/Tr
Atlanta
81/56/0.00
Atlantic City
55/39/0.00
Austin
75/54/0.07
Baltimore
64/37/Tr
Billings
56/34/0.00
Birmingham
81/56/0.00
Bismarck
53/24/0.00
Boise
66/34/0.00
Boston
49/37/Tr
Bridgeport, CT 52/37/Tr
Buffalo
39/30/0.00
Burlington, VT
33/27/Tr
Caribou, ME
23/13/Tr
Charleston, SC 80/55/0.00
Charlotte
74/53/0.01
Chattanooga
74/54/0.00
Cheyenne
28/26/0.18
Chicago
47/41/0.00
Cincinnati
55/31/0.00
Cleveland
48/35/0.00
Colorado Springs 33/29/0.18
Columbia, MO
53/45/0.16
Columbia, SC
77/56/Tr
Columbus, GA
83/54/0.00
Columbus, OH
56/29/0.00
Concord, NH
42/26/Tr
Corpus Christi
73/70/Tr
Dallas
75/56/0.07
Dayton
58/33/0.00
Denver
31/29/0.95
Des Moines
45/42/0.44
Detroit
50/36/0.00
Duluth
32/27/0.00
El Paso
61/41/0.01
Fairbanks
17/-13/0.00
Fargo
46/23/0.00
Flagstaff
42/19/0.03
Grand Rapids
49/35/0.00
Green Bay
40/33/0.00
Greensboro
69/39/0.00
Harrisburg
60/41/0.00
Hartford, CT
49/27/Tr
Helena
60/24/0.00
Honolulu
79/66/0.06
Houston
76/70/0.47
Huntsville
80/54/0.00
Indianapolis
54/33/0.00
Jackson, MS
80/54/Tr
Jacksonville
84/54/0.00
Eric Gay/AP
On the same day a pandemic was declared, Rachel Van Lear, of Buda, Texas, developed
symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she’s still waiting for them to disappear.
‘’Is it just a very delayed
recovery or is it something
even more alarming and
something that becomes the
new normal?’’
— Dr. Francis Collins, chief of the
National Institutes of Health
may occur in different people.
Dr. Steven Deeks, an infectious
disease specialist at the University
of California, San Francisco, said re-
searchers first need to create a widely
accepted definition of the syndrome.
Estimates are “all over the map be-
cause no one is defining it in the
same way,’’ he said.
Deeks is leading one study, collect-
ing blood and saliva samples from
volunteers who will be followed for
up to two years.
Some people develop long-term
problems even when their initial in-
fections were silent. Deeks said some
evidence suggests that those who
initially get sicker from a coronavi-
rus infection might be more prone
to persistent symptoms, and women
seem to develop them more than
men, but those observations need to
be confirmed, Deeks said.
Van Lear says she was in great
shape when she got sick. At 35, the
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
81/49/t
51/38/sh
40/27/pc
50/33/pc
25/3/s
63/56/r
42/39/c
81/57/c
42/38/r
42/27/sn
74/60/r
42/29/c
51/33/pc
39/30/pc
38/33/c
45/33/c
40/23/pc
24/9/s
73/60/c
53/46/r
69/52/r
33/20/c
43/31/pc
65/40/c
51/36/c
41/25/sf
58/42/pc
62/52/r
72/62/c
57/39/sh
41/23/pc
80/69/c
80/58/pc
59/37/c
36/23/c
43/32/c
45/32/sh
38/28/c
67/38/s
9/-11/pc
39/30/c
35/19/pc
43/26/sn
40/26/c
49/40/r
40/35/c
40/29/c
48/30/sh
79/69/pc
80/69/c
75/57/r
55/35/pc
78/65/r
84/62/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
27/19/Tr
47/46/0.67
48/33/0.00
68/39/0.00
50/33/0.06
44/41/3.34
74/54/0.05
64/54/0.00
50/39/0.05
47/27/0.00
77/56/0.00
82/65/0.00
42/41/0.00
48/35/0.00
67/53/0.01
81/63/0.02
54/42/0.00
56/39/0.00
67/38/0.00
68/53/0.16
47/41/2.19
83/56/0.00
72/49/0.00
51/38/Tr
59/37/0.00
68/42/Tr
53/32/0.00
40/26/Tr
49/32/Tr
72/43/0.00
36/33/0.31
60/31/0.00
66/31/0.00
38/33/0.01
57/43/0.03
54/48/0.04
57/36/0.00
77/52/0.05
63/55/0.00
58/51/0.21
59/44/0.00
45/26/Tr
85/53/Tr
47/42/0.18
44/40/0.12
60/32/0.00
59/50/0.79
80/63/0.00
66/38/0.00
61/53/0.63
66/45/0.00
64/59/0.16
55/27/0.03
76/44/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
38/34/sn
59/39/sh
39/27/pc
62/40/c
48/46/r
45/33/sh
75/48/s
59/43/sh
52/50/r
33/27/sn
75/53/r
83/71/pc
37/32/sn
35/27/sn
67/56/r
81/69/t
39/28/s
41/28/s
45/38/c
67/42/s
43/32/c
85/63/pc
65/44/pc
40/34/r
44/32/pc
75/47/pc
43/35/pc
23/13/s
32/17/s
52/38/c
33/24/sn
40/26/sn
50/33/c
28/19/pc
53/33/sh
58/45/r
61/39/c
83/61/s
59/51/c
57/42/sh
54/37/c
58/30/s
70/61/c
48/33/c
35/27/sn
47/31/pc
66/40/pc
83/66/pc
72/42/s
69/43/pc
49/36/pc
59/39/c
54/27/pc
73/44/pc
Tuesday
Hi/Lo/W
40/32/c
56/42/pc
46/27/r
61/44/s
67/43/c
47/33/c
76/59/c
60/45/s
70/46/c
40/27/c
76/60/pc
82/72/s
40/31/c
41/29/c
74/51/c
80/70/r
40/36/c
40/36/c
50/45/r
76/44/c
45/32/c
86/62/pc
70/48/s
46/34/pc
42/37/c
62/44/s
51/40/sh
36/25/s
38/29/pc
47/41/r
36/26/sn
51/27/pc
43/39/r
44/32/c
60/35/s
57/43/pc
53/37/c
81/60/c
62/47/pc
58/43/s
60/38/s
50/27/pc
79/64/c
51/34/pc
38/29/c
51/33/c
66/51/pc
82/66/pc
59/37/pc
75/57/c
43/40/r
65/46/c
58/30/pc
68/43/pc
96/70/0.00
83/54/0.00
28/25/0.07
35/27/0.33
84/56/0.00
81/69/0.00
88/64/0.00
61/41/0.00
43/28/0.00
25/23/Tr
54/37/0.11
84/75/0.00
61/45/0.00
81/54/0.00
84/68/0.00
48/34/0.00
56/34/0.00
64/43/0.00
86/77/0.31
41/30/0.00
58/57/0.41
75/63/0.00
70/50/0.00
64/50/0.00
37/32/Tr
48/46/0.13
46/44/0.10
47/39/0.05
99/68/s
79/53/c
21/10/s
39/33/c
84/60/s
80/69/s
91/64/pc
62/45/s
42/26/pc
23/10/s
54/40/r
86/75/s
59/38/pc
73/53/pc
83/66/t
44/24/s
60/37/c
76/55/pc
90/77/pc
39/24/pc
70/62/pc
84/61/s
70/59/pc
64/49/s
32/25/pc
46/33/s
49/37/pc
47/31/sh
100/68/s
79/54/s
35/21/pc
40/31/r
81/61/s
81/71/pc
92/65/pc
61/40/sh
39/19/s
36/19/pc
52/41/pc
85/75/s
62/36/pc
74/53/pc
84/67/t
43/32/r
54/31/pc
58/49/r
90/78/t
41/24/pc
70/66/sh
83/64/s
68/55/pc
69/49/s
38/32/pc
47/34/pc
46/34/sh
46/32/pc
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 88°
at Jacksonville, FL
National low: -13°
at West Yellowstone,
MT
Precipitation: 2.96"
at Columbus, NE
T-storms
A couple of showers
possible
NATIONAL
Umatilla
54/33
Rufus
Hermiston
47/29
53/33
50/30
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
52/31
49/27 50/31
40/28
Wasco
41/28 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
40/28
46/28
48/34
Sandy
51/31
McMinnville
47/30
Joseph
Heppner
CENTRAL: Clouds and
La
Grande
45/30
Maupin
Government
49/27
41/29
39/27
some sun Monday
Camp
45/26 Condon 44/29
Union
Lincoln City
41/26
34/21
with scattered snow
42/30
Salem
46/32
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
48/28
showers. Mostly
Madras
44/26
Albany
41/25
Baker City
48/29
48/26
cloudy Monday night. Newport
Mitchell
45/30
46/27
45/29
Camp Sherman
38/22
Redmond
Corvallis
WEST: Mostly cloudy Yachats
John
Unity
44/26
42/21
46/27
Day
Monday with only
Prineville
45/32
47/26
Ontario
Sisters
45/24
Paulina
39/26
spotty showers.
56/36
44/25
Florence
Eugene
Bend Brothers 38/20
Partly to mostly cloudy 48/33
Vale
48/29
43/25
33/18
Sunriver
59/35
Monday night.
Nyssa
41/21
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
61/35
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
37/16
35/19
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
49/28
43/27
48/28
Fort
Rock
48/32
42/23
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
39/18
40/25
High: 64°
35/15
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Rome
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
48/34
47/30
37/18
45/26
Low: 22°
Marsh
Lake
39/22
Port Orford
35/13
38/16
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
49/36
Pass
48/26
Chiloquin
39/24
50/32
Rome
Medford
42/18
Gold Beach
48/31
50/27
46/34
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
40/23
42/30
41/16
43/23
50/34
38/23
Seaside
47/32
Cannon Beach
46/32
51°
28°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Astoria
47/31
SUNDAY
51°
32°
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
WEDNESDAY
suburban Austin woman had no
other health issues and was a busy
mother of three who often worked
out. First came a chest cold, then
a high fever. A flu test came back
negative, so her doctor tested for
COVID-19. Soon after she developed
blinding headaches, debilitating fa-
tigue and nausea so severe that she
needed emergency room treatment.
‘’I was very scared because no one
could tell me what was going to hap-
pen to me,’’ Van Lear said.
Over the next several months,
symptoms would come and go: burn-
ing lungs, a rapid heartbeat, dizzy
spells, hand tremors and hair loss.
While most have disappeared, she
still deals with an occasional racing
heartbeat. Heart monitoring, blood-
work and other tests have all been
normal.
‘Don’t brush me off’
Fatigue, fever, and no taste or smell
were Karla Jefferies’ first symptoms
after testing positive last March. Then
came brain fog, insomnia, a nagging
smell of something burning that only
recently disappeared, and intermit-
tent ringing in her ears. Now she can’t
hear out of her left ear.
Doctors can’t find anything to ex-
plain it, and she bristles when some
doctors dismiss her symptoms.
‘’I understand that COVID is
something that we’re all going
through together but don’t brush me
off,’’ said Jefferies, 64, a retired state
Survivor Corps
Jefferies and Van Lear are mem-
bers of Survivor Corps, one of several
online support groups created during
the pandemic and that have amassed
thousands of members. Some are en-
rolling in studies to help speed the
science.
Dr. Michael Sneller is leading one
study at the NIH. So far, 200 have en-
rolled; they include survivors and a
healthy comparison group.
They are being given a series of
physical and mental tests once or
twice a year for three years. Other
tests are seeking signs of ongoing in-
flammation, abnormal antibodies
and blood vessel damage.
Sneller said he’s found no serious
heart or lung tissue damage so far.
He notes that many viruses can cause
mild heart inflammation, even some
cold viruses. Many people recover
but in severe cases the condition can
lead to heart failure.
Fatigue is the most common
symptom in the coronavirus group,
and so far researchers have found no
medical explanation for it. Insomnia
is common, too — in both groups.
Sneller says that’s not surprising.
“The whole pandemic and lock-
down affected all of us,” he said.
“There’s a lot of anxiety in the control
group too.’’
Many have symptoms similar to
chronic disease syndrome; and to
a condition involving fatigue and
thinking difficulties that can develop
after treatment for Lyme disease, a
bacterial infection spread by certain
ticks.
Researchers are hopeful that stud-
ies of long-term COVID-19 may
yield answers to what causes those
conditions, too.
47/38/pc
62/48/pc
74/60/c
85/56/pc
95/80/c
54/33/s
67/55/pc
43/30/pc
64/50/sh
52/35/pc
76/65/t
77/55/pc
75/55/s
46/26/s
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VACCINATIONS
Where the numbers stand
100 million
The U.S. achieved a milestone of
administering more than 100 million
COVID-19 shots as of the end of the
week, with 66 million people having
received at least a first dose of the
vaccine.
2.3 million
This many doses are being given
in the U.S. each day, a figure that is
likely to rise significantly in coming
weeks with the rollout of Johnson &
Johnson’s one-dose vaccine.
7 weeks
That’s about how long we have until
vaccine eligibility is available to all
American adults, if President Joe
Biden gets his way, with the goal of
allowing small groups to gather by
July 4. A Bloomberg News analysis
of vaccine manufacturers’ delivery
timelines estimated there would be
enough vaccine to cover more than
200 million Americans by that time,
and drugmakers have been working
to accelerate timetables.
— Bloomberg News
Fauci urges Trump to convince
Republicans on vaccinations
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday
he wishes former President Don-
ald Trump would use his popularity
among Republicans to persuade his fol-
lowers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a round of interviews on the
morning news shows, the govern-
ment’s top infectious disease expert
lamented polling showing that Trump
supporters are more likely to refuse to
get vaccinated, saying politics needs
to be separated from “commonsense,
no-brainer” public health measures.
Fauci said it would be a “game
changer” for the country’s vaccine ef-
forts if the former president used his
“incredible influence” among Repub-
licans.
Trump has urged people to get vac-
cinated, doing so again late last month
at a conservative political gathering in
Florida. It was revealed only recently
that he was vaccinated in private at
the White House before leaving office
in January.
Polls have shown Republicans join-
ing Black people and other groups in
expressing greater skepticism than
others about the safety of the vaccine.
— Associated Press