Your Weekend Reading: Cryptocurrency Sector Flashes Warning Signs

Get a jab or risk your job. That’s the message from JPMorgan as the world grapples with the prospect of deadly Covd-19 mutations derailing the great reopening. The delta variant is raging, several poorer nations in Africa and Asia are running out of vaccines, and Israel—formerly leading the world in inoculating its citizens—has ordered people to mask up again. The toxic combination of uneven access to vaccines and short-sighted government policies means the end of the pandemic is taking longer than it ought to, Clara Ferreira Marques writes in Bloomberg Opinion.

President Joe Biden’s tentative deal on a $579 billion plan to modernize America’s creaking infrastructure faces a series of hurdles in Congress. Bloomberg Businessweek crunched the data on which Americans missed out on unemployment benefits after they lost their jobs—and there’s a big state divide.