5-1-21 The CDC stopped monitoring breakthrough COVID infections that don't result in hospitalizations.

5-7-21 Pfizer and BioNTech asked the Food and Drug Administration for full approval of its Covid-19 vaccine

5-10-21 The FDA authorizes the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for 12-to 15-year-olds

5-12-21 Republican Party removes Liz Cheney from leadership position for telling the truth about the election

5-13-21 According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face mask or stay 6 feet away from others in most settings, whether outdoors or indoors; masks will still be required at health care settings and on public transportation; unvaccinated people should still wear masks

5-13-21 Eight vaccinated (J&J) New York Yankees tested positive for COVID-19; seven were asymptomatic; it is not known whether all of the infected Yankees caught it from a shared, unvaccinated source, or whether fully vaccinated individuals pass it to one another

5-17-21 Capacity restrictions in restaurants, retail, bars, etc. end, but capacity will be limited by the ability to distance by 6 feet. If all in attendance are vaccinated, the 6 feet limit doesn't apply

5-18-21 The Canadian border with the U.S. will stay shut through at least June 21

5-25-21 Manhattan's top prosecutor has convened a grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former President Donald Trump should prosecutors present criminal charges in their probe of the Trump Organization

5-25-21 Half Of All U.S. Adults Are Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19

5-29-21 The Washington Post found that the case rate for unvaccinated Americans is similar to the case rate for all residents on December 31 and that the rate among those unvaccinated is 73% higher than figures being publicized. In the past week, the US has averaged a little over 20,000 cases per day, the CDC reported. (40.5% of all people are fully vaccinated.)

5-29-21 J&D participate in their first MHCC group ride since the pandemic hit.

6-1-21 New daily COVID cases drop to below 10,000 in the U.S. for the first time since March 2020 (down from 250,000 cases per day in January)

6-3-21 First time J&D eat inside in a restaurant since pandemic began

6-5-21 The U.S. passed the milestone of administering more than 300 million vaccine doses. New cases and deaths continue to plunge and are back to the levels just after U.S. states began imposing restrictions in March 2020.

6-5-21. New York state’s positive test rate declined to a record for the seventh consecutive day. The 0.54% rolling seven-day average is among the lowest positive rates in the U.S. The number fell to 0.73%, the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic, on May 29 and has steadily declined since.

6-9-21 The highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 that spread rapidly in India is now in the U.S., worrying health experts with large portions of the country still unvaccinated. The variant has been found in more than 6% of cases in the U.S., and may be the cause of more than 18% in some parts of the country, the Centers for Disease Control said.

6-15-21 All of the state's COVID-19 restrictions are removed after the state passed the threshold of a 70 percent vaccination rate for adults

6-18-21 Canadian border will remain closed another month until at least July 21.

6-22-21 Researchers in Scotland found that getting infected with Delta Variant (from India) doubles the risk of hospital admission relative to Alpha (from U.K). (Previous studies have suggested that Alpha may be 30% to 70% deadlier than the original strain.). Two doses of Pfizer's vaccine were 88% effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 from Delta, while a single shot was just 33% effective. That's compared to 95% efficacy against the original strain, with 52% after one shot.

6-24-21 New York Coronavirus State of Emergency allowed to expire

6-25-21 In Israel, of more than 100 daily cases amid an outbreak of the delta variant, half were children younger than 16 (mostly unvaccinated). Half of the adults infected had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine is still highly effective at preventing severe disease. “The delta variant is currently the greatest threat in the U.S. to our attempt to eliminate COVID-19,” Fauci said.