Today's D Brief: COVID deaths drop; A new big hack; Breakthrough in Seoul; A new lawfare concern; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
March 8, 2021 10:37 AM ET
The D Brief
Fewer than 1,000 Americans died from COVID-19 complications on Sunday, and that’s the first time that’s happened since late November, according to the pandemic monitors at The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project.
Update: More than 6,200 active duty service members are helping staff COVID-19 vaccination sites across the country, the Defense Department announced Friday. The troops will be working with FEMA personnel, and will staff about 40 “vaccination teams†of varying sizes (e.g. about 220 for some, and only about 25 troops for other teams).
“Each larger team is capable of providing approximately 6,000 shots per day, each medium team can provide 3,000 shots per day, and each small team can provide 250 shots per day,†the Pentagon said Friday.
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