More than 103,000 Americans are hospitalized with covid-19.

• A jury convicted Elizabeth Holmes, who led the Silicon Valley blood-testing startup, on four counts. She was found not guilty on four counts, and the jury deadlocked on three others.
• What the verdict means: The jury agreed that Holmes knowingly misled investors about her company’s technology, which didn’t work as promised.

• Only one of the nation’s 20 largest districts has moved to remote learning, even with record coronavirus cases.
• Why? There’s widespread agreement that in-person learning is better for kids, both academically and emotionally.
• How are schools handling cases? Many are ramping up testing requirements, with some pushing back the start of the semester to make sure everyone gets one.

• There were at least 10,000 a day on average between Joe Biden’s election and the insurrection at the Capitol last year, a new Post and ProPublica investigation found.
• How we know this: Analysis of millions of posts. But it’s still likely an undercount, because it looked at only public groups.

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