The CDC web site notes:
In observance of Columbus Day, the COVID Data Tracker will not update on Sunday, October 10th or Monday, October 11th, 2021. Updates will resume on Tuesday, October 12th, 2021.
Yep, people are dying, plague is expanding, but they get the holiday off! Imagine if we had these clowns in WW II. Say my father said, let's not sail into that Japanese Fleet, we have a holiday this weekend. Fortunately he did not.