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Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins tells CNN's Jake Tapper that local officials should be able to decide whether to impose mask mandates in schools.

CNN's Harry Enten looks at the data around the Covid-19 vaccine that shows that you have a 25 times greater chance of dying from Covid-19 if you are unvaccinated and that those who are vaccinated have more than a 99% chance of surviving a infection.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins tells CNN's Jake Tapper that the Supreme Court "will look at precedent and reach their decision" in a Mississippi case that could topple the landmark abortion rights decision Roe v. Wade.

Anne Applebaum talks about her recent profile of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and his efforts to sow doubt about the 2020 election. While Lindell will fail to get Donald Trump reinstated, 'what he will help to do is loosen further American's sense that their democracy works, that their voter system is secure, that the people who observe and monitor their elections are honest," she says.

Stories about Simone Biles, Scarlett Johansson, NBC, and Disney all have a common thread about pressure and profits and streaming possibilities, Brian Stelter says. He quotes a Washington Post story about media companies trying to "hold on to old money while pursuing the new.

Jared Holt says right-wing political content exists in "a parallel media universe" from other news coverage, "and the two lanes don't touch." In that parallel universe, some Americans truly believe that Trump "is still the president," Anne Applebaum says.

Oliver Darcy says the Biden White House is "very frustrated" at news outlets for "overly focusing" on so-called breakthrough cases of Covid and missing the bigger picture. Robby Soave opines that recent coverage has been "utterly, shamefully hyperbolic and fear-mongering.

Dr. Celine Gounder says there is a faulty expectation that Covid vaccines should be "perfect" when that's "just not realistic." But they are highly effective, as Robby Soave says first-hand: He describes having a mild case of Covid after being vaccinated and says "I feel completely fine today" thanks to the vaccine.

Fareed takes a look at how increasingly antagonistic rhetorical exchanges between China and the U.S. are stoking nationalist sentiment.

Hundreds of dogs were adopted during the pandemic, with plenty of New Yorkers working from home able to care for a furry housemate for the first time. But as life returns to some normalcy, puppies and pet parents alike have to adapt to a different reality.

Mina Escondida (Chile) (AFP) – Workers at the world's biggest copper mine, Chile's Escondida, have approved a strike after rejecting the final contract offer proposed by multinational owners BHP. The workers are asking for a one-time bonus to recognize their work during the Covid-19 pandemic as well as education benefits for their children.

Rockland (United States) (AFP) – Virginia 'Ginny' Oliver has been catching lobsters off the coast of Maine since age 7 and is now 101 — and still going strong.