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Vaccines: America's next Covid-19 culture war is here | The Atlanta Voice

It's America's next Covid-19 culture war. Growing numbers of businesses, hospitality industries, and even sports teams are considering requiring proof of vaccination for customers, once the world begins to open up. For both patrons and staff, such a system might offer peace of mind - and could stop a cruise voyage around the Caribbean, for example, from turning into a […]

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Downplaying virus risk, Trump gets back to business as usual

Three months after President Donald Trump bowed to the realities of a pandemic that put big chunks of life on pause and killed more Americans than several major wars, Trump is back to business as usual — even as coronavirus cases are on the upswing in many parts of the

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