UUP COVID-19 Weekly Digest - Week of 5/8/22

Welcome back to our Weekly Digest! We hope you are well. This week's news includes new information about the toll that COVID-19 has taken on America, about what the global COVID-19 death toll could actual be, and about the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing. Read about these topics and more using the links below. 

New Jersey News:

• N.J. budget fight brewing after Murphy grabbed power to spend $3 billion in federal COVID relief funds
• N.J. reports 1 COVID death, 2,783 cases. 14 counties now at ‘medium’ transmission rates.

National News:

• Covid’s toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths
• U.S. Records More Than 100,000 New COVID-19 Cases in a Day

Global News:

• Beijing tests 20 million residents amid 'fast and furious' Omicron outbreak
• Covid: World’s true pandemic death toll nearly 15 million, says WHO

Vaccination News:

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Limits Use of Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to Certain Individuals

Thanks for reading.