Washington, DC sister mayor dies of complications from Covid

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s sister died of complications from Covid-19 on Wednesday, the mayor said.

Mercia Bowser, 64, was Bowser’s older sister.

“Mercia was immensely loved and will be sadly missed as she joins the legion of angels who returned home too early due to the pandemic,” Bowser, a Democrat, said in a statement.

Mercia Bowser had been treated for pneumonia linked to Covid-19.

Newly reported cases of the disease have declined across the country in recent weeks, but health experts say the number of new coronavirus infections is still high.

“The baseline for daily infections is still very, very high,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

“It’s not the 300 to 400,000 we had awhile ago, but we want that baseline to be really, really, really low before we start to think we’re out of the woods,” he said. -he declares.

The death toll in the United States from the disease exceeded 500,000 on Sunday. And the next day, President Joe Biden addressed the nation and held a moment of silence for the dead. As of Wednesday evening, more than 28 million cases had been reported and more than 506,000 people had died, according to the tally of NBC News reports.

Also on Wednesday, documents released by the Food and Drug Administration indicated that Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine is, overall, safe and highly effective against the most serious results of Covid-19.

In two days, an advisory committee is scheduled to discuss the company’s emergency use authorization application, which is expected to be recommended.