🌏🇺🇸VACCINE DATA UPDATE (Jan. 8) 💉🌏 The U.S. is inching *closer* to 1 million doses/day, and appears to be reaching some kind of (maybe) early inflection point. 🇺🇸US: 7.05M doses admin (+865k, one-day record🏅) 🌏18.9M doses (+1.4M from y'day) bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…

Apple threatened to ban social media app Parler due content concerns. Jeff Horwitz Tim Higgins report wsj.com/articles/apple…

Manufacturers are stopping production lines due to a shortage of computer chips wsj.com/articles/ford-…

Stanford pulls plug on the return of freshmen and sophomores to campus mercurynews.com/2021/01/10/sta…

If you want to see what happens when B.1.1.7 becomes the dominant strain, you can look at Ireland, now the highest new cases per capita globally

Ireland B.1.1.7 sequences of total assayed: week of Dec 27th: 9% week of Jan 3rd: 25% Jan 10th: 46% UK evolution assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… How long will it take for the US to get to >40% B.1.1.7? less than 12 weeks

The U.S. is expected to require Covid-19 Tests for international airline passengers, including from citizens. wsj.com/articles/u-s-t… via The Wall Street Journal

Govts are starting to require higher-quality face masks over basic cloth ones. The German state of Bavaria said today that it will require people to wear FFP2 masks, similar to N95 masks in the U.S., on public transit and in stores.

China's Sinovac vaccine was about 50% effective, much less than initially reported but enough, public-health experts say, to be worth giving, Samantha Pearson and @luciwsj report wsj.com/articles/china…

More public discussion on whether the public should be encouraged to wear higher-quality masks.

More than 22 million Americans have tested positive for Covid-19. Do they still need to follow quarantine and testing regiments? How long does immunity last? The number of survivors + vaccine recipients will represent an increasingly large share of the population.

What's an "excess death"? More than 2.8 million people have died due to the pandemic, according to a WSJ analysis of data from 59 countries and jurisdictions, far more than the official tolls. Jon Paul Overberg Dan Michaels Lindsay Huth wsj.com/articles/the-c… via The Wall Street Journal

Study from Israel finds rapid vax effect: After 14d from first shot, infection rates fell 33% among 200K 60+ year-olds vaccinated vs 200K not. Of 1.7M vaccinated, just 1,127, or 0.06%, reported side effects, such as weakness, headaches, dizziness, fever, or site pain/swelling.

3M, Honeywell and nearly 60 other companies have signed agreements with FEMA to work together to coordinate production and distribution medical gear and get antitrust protection wsj.com/articles/mask-…

Mexico exonerated former Defense Minister Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos of allegations he was in the pay of drug traffickers, putting an end to a case that has roiled relations between the U.S. and Mexico wsj.com/articles/mexic…

Letter to WSJ editor

China is seeking a meeting of its top diplomat with senior Biden aides to explore a Xi/Biden summit. It plans to align discussions with Biden priorities such as pandemic and climate change. No more "we will buy more soybeans." With bob davis wsj.com/articles/china… via The Wall Street Journal

Iris Westman had no access to social media and rarely watched television. That may be one reason she lived with remarkable serenity to the age of 115. wsj.com/articles/at-ag… via The Wall Street Journal

A Covid-19 vaccine from J&J was 66% effective in a late-stage trial wsj.com/articles/j-j-c… via The Wall Street Journal

The stock market's wild ride isn't just for retail investors. It's also boosting CEOs, directors, other insiders. A few sold. One could win $90M cash if the run-up lasts. My latest w/ Jacquie McNish Sarah E. Needleman Jennifer Maloney wsj.com/articles/insid… on The Wall Street Journal $BB $GME $FIZZ