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An executive order issued by President Joe Biden has the potential to become one of the most important government documents in years directed at carriers and their customers working within the country’s transportation sector.

Odds are that you’re going to be more likely to deal with haters than fans on a Facebook page, according to a study. But smart moderation tactics can help defuse issues before they get out of hand.

North Carolina is among the best-performing U.S. states when it comes to distributing vaccines evenly among Black and white residents. That’s partly because the state is by far the best at collecting demographic data. About 11% of North Carolina’s Black population has received at least one shot, compared with 17% of the state’s white residents, the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker shows. That puts North Carolina in fourth place for the smallest spread between the two groups among states with the most comprehensive data sets. Other states might be doing as well or better than North Carolina in terms of equality, though huge numbers of incomplete records obscure the national picture.

The U.S. government has invested billions of dollars in manufacturing, used a wartime act dozens of times to boost supplies and yet there’s still not enough COVID-19 vaccine on the way to meet demand — or even the government’s own goals for national immunization. President Joe Biden, in remarks at the National Institutes of Health this month, said the nation is “now on track to have enough supply for 300 million Americans by the end of July.” But at the current rate of production, Pfizer and Moderna will miss their targets of providing at least 100 million doses each by the end of March, let alone 200 million more doses each has promised by July.

Portland resident Richard Clarke, 70, isn’t sure if he’s officially registered to enter a weekly COVID-19 vaccination lottery for appointments available at the Oregon Convention Center. He said after registering at getvaccinated.oregon.gov, he hasn’t received an email or a text confirming that he’s in the pool of eligible residents -- even though the state has publicly said everyone who registers will. He also called 211 to verify, but the representative wasn’t able to give him an answer. Clarke said he’s also uneasy because contrary to what state and local officials announced more than a week ago, the state website still says, “This tool does not allow you to schedule a vaccination appointment.”