As of 8:30 am on Thursday, February 25, 2021, The Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard reports the following information. 

 Global Cases -112,737,085    Global Deaths – 2,501,626

U.S. Cases – 28,348,259   U.S. Deaths – 506,500

Yahoo News reports pharmaceutical company Pfizer-BioNtech has begun testing a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine.