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ALABAMA ASSN. OF REALTORS v. DEPARTMENT 
OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVS. 
BREYER, J., dissenting 

Source: CDC, Trends in Number of COVID–19 Cases and Deaths in the 
US Reported to CDC, https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_ 
dailycases. 

To  date,  the  CDC  estimates  that  38,150,911  Americans 
have been sickened.  Ibid.  629,139 have died.  Ibid.  This 
week,  the  CDC  calculates  average  new  daily  hospital  ad-
missions at 12,209.  See CDC, New Admissions of Patients 
with  Confirmed  COVID–19,  https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-
data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions.    The  number  of 
patients hospitalized with COVID–19 is up 13.3% from last 
week.  See CDC, Prevalent Hospitalization of Patients With 
Confirmed  COVID–19,  https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-
tracker/#hospitalizations.

Look  back  at  the  order’s  criteria  for  temporary  eviction 
relief.    The  CDC  targets  only  those  people  who  have  no-
where else to live, in areas with dangerous levels of commu-
nity transmission.  These people may end up with relatives, 
in  shelters,  or  seeking  beds  in  other  congregant  facilities 
where  the  doubly  contagious  Delta  variant  threatens  to
spread quickly.  See CDC, Delta Variant: What We Know 
About  the  Science,  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/variants/delta-variant.html  (Delta  variant  is  “more 
than 2x as contagious as previous variants” and may “cause