🥁Axios PM: Strict mandate ends

Plus: New AirPod trend | Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Morgan Stanley   Axios PM By Mike Allen ·Nov 16, 2021 Good afternoon: Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 397 words, a 1.5-minute read. 📲 Join Axios' Caitlin Owens and Sam Baker tomorrow at 12:30pm ET for a virtual event highlighting innovations in care for cancer prevention and treatment. Register here.     1 big thing: Strict mask mandate ends Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images   One of America's strictest mask mandates is about to end, reports Axios D.C. co-author Chelsea Cirruzzo. The big picture: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cited vaccines for declining hospitalizations and deaths. When D.C.'s order lifts Monday, masks will still be required in schools, public transportation, nursing homes and D.C. government facilities where workers are directly working with the public. Between the lines: D.C. is still in what the CDC calls "substantial transmission" of more than 50 cases per 100,000 people per day. "We've moved away from this goal of getting to zero cases of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 in our community," said health director LaQuandra Nesbitt. The bottom line: Local leaders hope President Biden will now call federal workers back into the office to jump-start the city's recovery, notes Axios D.C. co-author Cuneyt Dil. Go deeper.     2. Boston's historic day Photo: Charles Krupa/AP Michelle Wu — with her sons, Blaise and Cass, and husband, Conor Pewarski — is sworn in as Boston mayor during a ceremony at Boston City Hall. Wu is the first woman and person of color elected the city's mayor, notes Axios' Shawna Chen.     A message from Morgan Stanley Achieving the UN's sustainability goals     How do you galvanize business and society to act on objectives as ambitious as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed discusses with Morgan Stanley Chief Sustainability Officer Audrey Choi. Learn more.     3. Catch up quick President Biden walks with infrastructure chief Mitch Landrieu en route to New Hampshire to visit the NH 175 bridge over the Pemigewasset River. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Pfizer agreed to license its COVID-19 pill, allowing generic drug companies to cheaply produce the pills for more than 100 low- and middle-income countries. Go deeper. NASA isn't likely to meet its Moon landing deadline of 2025, according to a new report by its office of the inspector general. 🎉 New York City will allow people to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square, as long as they're fully vaccinated. Go deeper. Want to sort of own a sports team? The Green Bay Packers — the only publicly owned, not-for-profit major pro sports team in the U.S. — are selling stock for the sixth time in the franchise's 102-year history. Go deeper.     4. 1 for the road: AirPods out, wires back Lily-Rose Depp rocks wires in Manhattan in March. Photo: James Devaney/GC Images via Getty Images   "AirPods have become too widespread to be cool," The Wall Street Journal's Rory Satran reports (subscription): "So, perhaps inevitably, contrarian trendsetters are reviving some ancient technology: corded headphones." "Fashionable young celebrities including Bella Hadid, Lily-Rose Depp and Zoë Kravitz have been photographed strutting around town with blatantly corded headphones. An Instagram account called @wireditgirls has sprung up to document these cords in the wild."     A message from Morgan Stanley Achieving the UN's sustainability goals     How do you galvanize business and society to act on objectives as ambitious as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed discusses with Morgan Stanley Chief Sustainability Officer Audrey Choi. Learn more.   Like this email style and format? Learn more about Axios HQ. It'll help you deliver employee communications more effectively.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. Axios, 3100 Clarendon B‌lvd, Suite 1300, Arlington VA 22201   You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from Axios. Change your preferences or unsubscribe here.   Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up now to get Axios in your inbox.   Follow Axios on social media: