1. Vaccine passports are supposed to serve as proof of vaccination that is increasingly being required by businesses. While several Republican governors are already vowing to block passports in their states, big businesses, including Norwegian Cruise Lines, are beginning to required proof of vaccination. Dr. Marcus Plescia is chief medical officer at the Association of State & Territorial Health Officials. And Jay Stanley is the senior policy analyst at the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.

AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine candidate is now in legitimate trouble after EU drug regulators say there's a likely link to a serious blood clotting disorder. And now public health officials in the United Kingdom are recommending that anyone under 30 not take AstraZeneca's vaccine. Dr. Cody Meissner is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Tufts.

New research from Ireland reviewed every documented case of coronavirus infection in the country and determined that a mere point-1-percent of infections occurred in outdoor settings. The takeaway is that risk of COVID transmission in most outdoor settings is extremely low, but not every outdoor setting is the same. Dr. Sean Clouston is a professor of family, population & preventative medicine at Stony Brook Medicine's Public Health program.

At the leadership level among American evangelical Christians, the message has been pretty consistent: go get your COVID vaccination, for the sake of you, your family and your congregation. But vaccine skepticism remains widespread among white evangelicals than almost any other major bloc of Americans. Jared Cornutt is senior pastor at the Plymouth Park Baptist Church in Irving, Texas.

The majority of colleges and universities have temporarily eliminated the standardized testing requirement for admission because of the pandemic. This might look like a small move, but it's having big ripple effects for students. KYW's Suzanne Monaghan asks Application Nation founder Sara Harberson what the move means and who it's affecting. 

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