►The highly transmissible delta variant now makes up 6% of infections in the United States, the Biden administration said Tuesday.
►Coronavirus case counts have plummeted in Michigan to a level last seen in July 2020 as the percentage of Michiganders 16 and older who've gotten at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine approaches 60%. Hospitalizations from the virus also have plunged — dropping 83% since the peak of the last surge in Michigan.
►More than half of all California residents are living in yellow-tier counties ahead of California's reopening next week, the state's department of health announced Tuesday.
►Several dozen staffers at Houston Methodist Hospital, which became the first major health care system in the U.S. to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations, were suspended without pay this week for not complying with the hospital's full vaccination requirement. The staffers represent less than one percent of the hospital's roughly 26,000 employee workforce.
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