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More than 20 percent of the U.S. population has been vaccinated and deaths are declining steadily even while new cases are on the rise. So far, 561,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the country.

This happened at a time when authorities were regularly responding to heated confrontations over masks and other coronavirus mandates

A Florida woman who purposefully coughed on another customer without wearing a mask in a Pier 1 store last summer has received jail time and fines.

A maskless customer in a Florida Pier 1 store who coughed at another customer last June was sentenced to serve 30 days in jail.

Debra Hunter will spend up to a month in jail for coughing on a woman who recorded her tantrum at a store in Jacksonville, Fla.

The episode came during a period in the pandemic when the authorities were responding to heated confrontations across the country over masks and other precautions, with some of those disputes leading to criminal charges for people who spat or coughed on ride-share drivers, store employees and police officers. Retail workers also reported being subjected to verbal abuse — and even threats involving guns — for enforcing mask rules. Ms. Hunter said she felt remorse and guilt from “one very p...