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More than a year into the pandemic, issues in the supply chain are still causing shortages.

RALEIGH — The government may no longer require North Carolinians to wear masks in public, but putting them on could help prevent thousands of coronavirus cases and deaths by the end of the year, according to researchers at three of the state’s universities.

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, the worst of it could be behind us, but in order to get comfortable with this notion, Americans may also need to get used to some of the vestiges of the past year’s mitigation efforts. The latest development — a positive one — is that all adults in the U.S. are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Jon Rahm, the third-ranked professional golfer in the world, was informed that he had a confirmed positive test for COVID-19 after completing the third round of the Memorial Golf Tournament.  

PROPERTY INSURERS price policies today but face payouts a year from now. That makes their profits hostage to inflation. As swathes of America’s economy have begun rapidly reopening for business in recent weeks, thanks to falling rates of covid-19 infections and rising ones of vaccination, William Berkley has been paying close attention to prices of building materials and anything found inside homes, from lamps to laptops. The replacement value of a home in America may have leapt by 20%, year on year, Mr Berkley thinks. Since the eponymous founder of WR Berkley launched his firm over half a century ago, he has never witnessed a time like the past year—not even in the inflationary 1970s.