The New Paper

May 7, 2021

The New Paper Weekly Recap: US

  • Over 100M Americans have now been fully vaccinated against covid (5/3)
  • The EPA proposed a new rule to phase down production of HFCs (5/4)
  • Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order lifting all remaining local coronavirus restrictions across the state (5/4)
  • The US general fertility rate fell by 4% in 2020 (5/5)
  • The Biden administration announced support for waiving IP protections for coronavirus vaccines (5/6)
  • A federal judge struck down the national eviction moratorium (5/6)
  • Broadway will reopen at 100% capacity on 9/14 (5/6)
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new election bill into law (5/7)
  • The New York Attorney General found that ~80% of public comments on the FCC’s 2017 decision to repeal net neutrality rules were fabricated (5/7)
  • A sixth-grader in Idaho shot and wounded two students and a custodian (5/7)
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