Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced Saturday that the city would give away AirPods, gift cards and thousands of dollars in scholarship money as incentives to get more adolescents and teens vaccinated.
Reports about celebrities arriving at the event in numbers also raised questions about an earlier promise by Obama's spokesperson that it will be attended only by relatives and close friends due to the raging Delta strain of COVID-19.
Israeli ministry figures confirmed 3,843 coronavirus cases on Thursday alone, even though "over 5.8 million have received at least one vaccine dose," reports the Times of Israel.
The New York Post reports that an executive assistant who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of groping her has filed a criminal complaint, leading one Sheriff to suggest it could lead to an arrest.
claiming that more than 350 million Americans have been vaccinated against the virus. The US Census Bureau estimates the nation’s population at 331.4 million.