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Daniel Duncanson, the chief executive of a physician practice in Florida, finally got some COVID-19 vaccines for his front-line workers after haggling with a major hospital. But it’s not clear when more are coming amid a shift in strategy from health care providers to massive vaccination sites. “We need 200 doses for our employees’ second doses and I've got none in right now,” said Duncanson, CEO of SIMEDHealth. Duncanson said many doses in his county were recently committed to a vaccination effort at the University of Florida football stadium last week. Across the country, COVID-19 vaccines are increasingly being distributed in mass clinics built from scratch in stadiums rather than doctors' offices.

The coronavirus vaccine rollout is well underway and many Americans are growing more confident, hoping to plan their first trip using air transportation in more than a year. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 global health crisis, air travel has plummeted by 95 percent. Its lowest point was in April 2020. Air travel has somewhat bounced back since then with approximately 700,000 air passengers going through security checkpoints every day in U.S. airports. That’s down though from 2 million per day this time last year. With more Americans being immunized for the coronavirus and more people starting to consider air travel, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the airlines need to be ready to safely accommodate a higher number of air travelers ready to return to the skies.

This week, Iowa opened the next phase for vaccine distribution. Phase 1B includes frontline essential workers as well as Iowans 65 and older. But vaccine demand far exceeds supply, and has made rollout challenging, especially in the state’s many rural areas. For more than seven years, the Girls State Training School in Toledo has sat mostly empty and unused. But on Monday, the school campus’ main building is buzzing on the first day of Tama County’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic. Rooms that are still labeled for their previous tenants -- social workers, psychologists, administrators -- are now filled with health care workers, mostly volunteers, and elderly residents of the rural county of about 18,000.

Minnesotans who have watched the bar scene across the border from the Twin Cities in Hudson, Wisconsin remain relatively lively during parts of the COVID-19 pandemic when their own state’s watering holes were closed might be wondering: Why are the COVID-19 death rates in Minnesota and Wisconsin so similar? As of Thursday, Wisconsin had recorded 6,549 deaths due to COVID-19, compared to 6,319 deaths in Minnesota. When you adjust that for the size of the two states’ populations (Wisconsin is slightly larger), the rates work out to 112 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents in both states.

Israel has managed to administer at least one coronavirus vaccine to 60 out of every 100 of its residents as of Wednesday, according to figures compiled by the research and data analysis website Our World in Data. On a per capita basis, Israel's coronavirus vaccination performance is the best in the world. Other standout nations include the United Arab Emirates – which reported administering vaccines to 36 out of every 100 residents – the United Kingdom, Bahrain and the U.S., which were reporting vaccination rates of approximately 15.5, 10.3 and 10.1 per 100 residents, respectively, on Wednesday.