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math, they ve come out and said he ll not be paid for the home games because that was the ruling before they made this call that he was not even eligible to play. it appears they ll continue to compensate him for the road games he would have technically been eligible to participate in but the team has made the call to not allow his participation. the big picture is his contract renewal. he was supposed to be having those discussions this season about trying to negotiate another deal. he s on his four-year deal worth over $136 million. so he is in jeopardy of missing over $34 million this year, if they completely sever ties. they know he s going to likely get half of that. the other picture is endorsement deals. how will his partners feel that this is affecting their brand. it s going to be difficult to reconcile for some of these companies, if they require their employees to get vaccinated and then they endorse someone who is
more than 136 million people in the u.s., nearly 38% of the population have been fully vaccinated so far. the u.s. will donate millions of vaccine doses overseas to other nations facing shortages. president biden made the announcement yesterday saying the country will donate an initial allotment of 25 million doses through the united nations to south and central america, asia, africa and others. the dose mark a substantial and immediate boost to the lagging u.n. effort which to date has shared just 76 million doses with countries in need. biden s announcement comes amid a spike in cases in africa and a new plea for vaccines. the white house plans to share 80 million doses globally by the end of june. a quarter of the nation s vaccine access will be kept in reserve for emergencies and to share directly with allies and partners. a group of landlords is asking the supreme court to step in and end the government halted
nbc news now puts the u.s. death toll from covid-19 at more than 600,000. the country crossed the half million mark back in april. the numbers have decreased significantly since more people have been vaccinated, but according to the cdc, hundreds of deaths are still reported daily. the agency said last week, the numbers of cases and deaths had dropped to their lowest level in almost a year. more than 136 million people in the u.s., nearly 38% of the population have been fully vaccinated so far. meanwhile, the effects of the economic downturn during the pandemic have been devastating, especially for women of color, many of whom are struggling to keep their businesses alive. alexi mccammond, you have a new piece on knowyourvalue.com hosting a new initiative to
cases was the average, we re at 16,239 right now. that s where we were a month ago. go back to the beginning of the year, five months ago in january 215,000 new infections a day, way back to july 2020, we were higher than this, the first time, way down now, way down since a long time ago, if you look at the vaccine snapshot, well, this is why the cases are down, why hospitalizations are down, because 41% of americans, more than 136 million americans are fully vaccinated. more than half, 51% of americans now partially vaccinated. that s one reason the case count is down. deaths are down, hospitalizations are down. if you look at it from this perspective, though, the vaccine rollout has slowed some, right, this is the fall of the yellow line, that s the averages, right now the united states is averaging 615,000 people reaching full vaccination every day, if you go back in april that was 2.5 million. yes, americans early on got vaccines, now you re in a bit of a lag, that s the fully pict