Coronavirus dashboard: Catch up fast

1. Health: Axios-Ipsos poll: 1 in 3 Americans know someone who died from COVID-19 — Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden’s window of opportunity on COVID — Nursing home COVID cases have drastically declined — U.S. death toll tops 500,000.
2. Vaccine: Pfizer and Moderna expect to double vaccine shipments by spring — Fast-spreading misinformation on COVID vaccine and infertility worries health experts — Modified vaccines for variants would not require large clinical trials, FDA says.
3. Economics: Small businesses say even second round of PPP loans not enough — U.S. growth expectations are going through the roof.
4. Local: Denver breaks from Colorado’s vaccine plan — Twin Cities and some Midwest metros fare better economically than rest of U.S. — Federal vaccine distribution arriving in Tampa.
5. World: Boris Johnson unveils roadmap to fully reopen England’s economy by June.

Cases:

1. Global: Total confirmed cases as of 2 p.m. ET Tuesday: 111,913,701 — Total deaths: 2,479,672 — Total recoveries: 63,133,922 (no longer includes U.S. recoveries as of Dec. 15) — Map
2. U.S.: Total confirmed cases as of 2 p.m. ET Tuesday: 28,212,187 — Total deaths: 501,315 — Total tests: 341,874,832 — Map

What should I do? Axios asked the experts:

• Which states mandate face coverings
• When you can be around others after contracting the coronavirus
• Traveling, asthma, dishes, disinfectants and being contagious
• Masks, lending books and self-isolating
• Exercise, laundry, what counts as soap
• Pets, moving and personal health
• Answers about the virus from Axios experts
• What to know about social distancing
• How to minimize your risk

Other resources:

• CDC on how to avoid the virus
• What to do if you get it
• The right mask to wear

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Editor’s note: Johns Hopkins University stopped reporting U.S. COVID-19 recoveries on its dashboard on Dec. 15, citing a Coronavirus Tracking Project post that explained the national data is incomplete since several states do not keep records of recovered patients.