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URBANA, Illinois -- The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides weekly reports on breakthrough infections leading to hospitalizations and deaths. However, similar data on infections amongst previously infected people are needed to assess the road to the virus becoming endemic -- present in the population but manageable due to widespread immunity.

The quickly approaching flu season could be one of the worst Arkansas has experienced in several years because people have lower immunity to the virus after an almost nonexistent influenza outbreak last fall and winter, doctors and public health officials are warning.

A few hundred yards south of the fishing boat docks at the Port of New Bedford in southeastern Massachusetts, workers will soon start offloading gigantic turbine components onto a wide expanse of gravel. Local trawlers and lobster boats will find themselves sharing their waterways with huge vessels hefting cranes and massive hydraulic jacks. And on an approximately 100-square mile patch of open sea that fishermen once traversed with ease, 62 of the world’s largest wind turbines will rise one by one over the ocean waves.

Sensi Brands Inc., a federally licensed marijuana producer, opened Southwestern Ontario’s first farm-gate retail cannabis store in St. Thomas on Wednesday.

If you want to understand the state of the economy, both the good and the bad, Savannah’s port offers a vivid snapshot.