Today’s In Crisis headlines

(NEW YORK) — Here are today’s In Crisis headlines:

Police use-of-force training public confidence at new low, finds ABC News/Washington Post poll
Public confidence that police in the United States are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force reached a new low in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, with 60% of Americans saying the country should do more to hold police accountable for mistreatment of Black people. More broadly, 63% say Black people and other minorities don’t receive treatment equal to that of whites in the criminal justice system. That number is off its peak of 69% last July, but is still the next-highest number in polls dating to 1988. It also includes a majority of white people for only the second time.

Forty-two percent of those polled say President Joe Biden is doing “too little” to try to reform police practices in this country, with 32% saying he’s doing the right amount and 15%, say he’s doing too much. The poll overlapped the trial and conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd last May. Public concern about police misconduct increased after Floyd’s death and the protests that followed.

COVID-19 numbers
Here’s the latest data on COVID-19 coronavirus infections, deaths and vaccinations.

Latest reported COVID-19 numbers globally per Johns Hopkins University
Global diagnosed cases: 144,855,400
Global deaths: 3,074,894. The United States has the most deaths of any single country, with 570,346.
Number of countries/regions: at least 192
Total patients recovered globally: 83,275,734

Latest reported COVID-19 numbers in the United States per Johns Hopkins University
There are at least 31,930,271 reported cases in 50 states + the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam. This is more than in any other country.
U.S. deaths: at least 570,346. California has the greatest number of reported deaths in the U.S., with 61,309.
U.S. total people tested: 423,232,285

The greatest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is in California, with 3,727,913 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 39.51 million. This ranks third in the world after England, which has 3,843,260 cases, and Maharashtra, India, which leads the world with 4,094,840 reported cases. Texas is second in the U.S., with 2,867,831 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 29 million.

Latest reported COVID-19 vaccination numbers in the United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a total of 282,183,915 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been distributed in the U.S. Of those, 218,947,643 doses have been administered, with 135,791,031 people receiving at least one dose and 89,245,776 people fully vaccinated, representing 40.9% and 26.9% of the total U.S. population, respectively. The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines each require two doses to be effective. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine requires a single dose to be effective.

CDC advisory panel could lift Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause today
A panel of outside advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to meet today to determine whether the nationwide pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine should be lifted. Administration of the vaccine was temporarily halted ten days ago after several women who received it developed rare and potentially life-threatening blood clots. A vote on whether to lift the pause is expected before 5:00 p.m. ET, after which the CDC director would have to sign off on the decision before vaccines are resumed at a date to be determined.

The meeting comes one day after news that Oregon health officials and the CDC are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s who died two weeks after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The FDA, CDC and Texas health officials are also investigating the case of a Texas woman who was hospitalized after receiving the vaccine.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins told ABC’s Good Morning America Friday that he’s hopeful today’s meeting will bring about a “positive sense” as to how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can save lives, and said the blood clotting is a treatable condition if immediately dealt with. He noted that the vaccine pause has been useful “to get everybody apprised of that so that all physicians know this is something to watch out for and can be prepared to treat it appropriately if it should happen again in the future.”