of infections. and of course then you are just in time for the autumn, just in time for winter, and another possible wave all over again. miguel, thank you so much for that. and so vaccinations one of the reason this is economy has managed to crawl out of the covid hole. gdp back to its pre-pandemic size growing at a rate of 6.5%, fastest since last fall. you can see the two red bars there, that is where the pandemic caused the economy to post its worse gdp drop in history. but it has been roaring back to life since then. dow and s&p touched all-time highs during the day. fell short of setting records by the close. tech earnings have been amazing in the second quarter. even boeing and ford made money shaking off disruptive travel and chip shortages. the risk now is the delta variant, why so many companies are requiring workers to be vaccinated or face onerous testing and quarantine protocols or lose their job.
they ll be disinfecting areas pretty frequently and have quarantine protocols in place in case a student faculty member. governor kemp signed an executive order in may which basically restricts the usage of masks in schools but does not go far enough in outright banning them. we should also mention nine out of the 20 largest school districts in the country are mak making masks optional at this point. john and brianna? amara walker, thank you very much. it s obviously exacerbated by the decision millions of americans have made not to get vaccinated which puts us in a worse situation as kids are heading back to school, making matters worse. brianna? the state has the second highest growth rate in cases per capita in the u.s. and
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alternate member of the team so the team is made up of six gymnasts who are selected to compete, one of the alternates tested positive for covid and she s going to be moved to a facility, a medical facility, and then another teammate we are told by usa gymnastics has to go under enhanced quarantine protocols until she is cleared. that comes on top of this news about coco goff. now, it s important to make a distinction. coco goff tested positive while she was still going through protocols to get here. she hadn t arrived. this case of this gymnast here in tokyo, this is a person who had already gone through those protocols, had already tested negative and then tested positive here. it s not to say that she didn t contract it outside of the country, we don t know for sure. all of this coming just days before they are scheduled to compete. their competition begins on sunday. usa gymnastics saying that they have moved their training