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The Associated Press PHOENIX — This is the first winter in five years that Steve Monk and his wife, Linda, haven’t driven to Arizona from their home in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. They typically leave Canada to hunker down in warmer climates for six months. They could fly, skirting travel restrictions at the border, but they’d rather “freeze their buns off” than go to the U.S., where COVID-19 infections and deaths are surging. “It’s not worth taking a chance. It’s not nearly as bad in this country as it is down there,” said Monk, 69. “Pretty much every Canadian person we...

Loss of 'snowbirds' amid pandemic another hit to US tourism By TERRY TANG and TERRY SPENCER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — This is the first winter in five years that Steve Monk and his wife, Linda, haven't driven to Arizona from their home in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.  They typically leave Canada to hunker down in warmer climates for six months. They could fly, skirting travel restrictions at the border, but they'd rather "freeze their buns off" than go to the U.S., where COVID-19 infections and deaths are surging. "It's not worth taking a chance. It's not nearly as bad in this countr...

Close In this photo provided by his employer, Bruce Smith, a FedEx package handler, works in a facility at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Cascade Township, Michigan, on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. FedEx is one of the companies helping transport a vaccine made by Pfizer. Helping with the transport of the vaccine has special meaning to Smith, whose older sister died in Georgia after she contracted the coronavirus in May. "I think she would be ecstatic to know that something that has ravaged our family — that a family member is going to be part of such a big projec...