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Early Addition: Rental Cars Have Gotten Gross
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Published Jul 26, 2021
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- Florida is now home to one in five new coronavirus infections in the United States, with vaccination rates in the state lingering slightly below the national average.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci is trying to drum up support for a multi-billion-dollar-a-year effort to develop vaccine prototypes for 20-odd viruses that could cause the next pandemic.
- In rural Utah, at least seven people died yesterday in a 20-car pile-up caused by a sandstorm.
- A snow leopard at the San Diego Zoo who developed a runny nose and a cough last week has tested positive for COVID-19.
- Levar Burton, who begins his run as a Jeopardy! guest host this week, has already emerged as the People's Choice for permanently replacing the late Alex Trebek.
- Rental cars have gotten more expensive and more disgusting during the pandemic.
- This week's issue of The New Yorker features a cool photo spread of long-exposure pictures of New York City hotspots reopening.
- A Houston man has become the second Capitol rioter to get arrested after telling on himself on the dating app Bumble.
- Grimes released a new song that's "about having to defeat Azealia Banks when she tried to destroy my life."
- Dexter will return on November 7th, and Showtime released a new trailer on Sunday.
- And finally, mind if I join y'all?:
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