Sources: UPI
Israel's government agrees to ban all travel to Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.S. without special permission beginning on December 22 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2021-12-20
The Food and Drug Administration gives full approval to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first vaccine in the U.S. to be granted full licensure and thereby giving businesses, schools and universities more confidence to adopt vaccine mandates. 2021-08-23
The United States surpasses 300 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines being administered. 2021-06-6
The United States records 227,885 new cases of COVID-19, breaking a record set the previous day. 2020-12-4
Texas surpasses 20,000 total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and becomes the state with the second-highest number of reported deaths in the United States, behind only New York. 2020-11-16
61,964 hospitalizations are reported in the United States, a new record high surpassing the previous record on April 15 and the first time that there are more than 60,000 Americans hospitalized for COVID-19. 2020-11-10
President Rodrigo Duterte rejects the prospect of reopening the country during a televised cabinet meeting. He goes on to claim that following the examples of the United States', Brazil's and others' "bold actions" would result in "pandemonium", and the potential resultant spike in COVID-19 cases would land the nation in "deep shit". 2020-07-9
The number of worldwide cases of COVID-19 surpasses three million. The United States accounts for more than a third of the total cases. 2020-04-27
"The Washington Post" reports that U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned President Trump about the threats posed by COVID-19 in January and February, but administration officials say they "just couldn't get him to do anything about it." 2020-03-20