1. Massachusetts dental practice fined $9.5K for COVID-19 safety violations Full story

2. Rhode Island dentist has license suspended after patients allege sexual assault Full story

3. SmileDirectClub to open $34M manufacturing plant in Tennessee, add 600 new jobs Full story

4. Your patients expect to do business with your practice like they do with other online businesses. Click here to join a discussion on modernizing patient payments.

5. Delta Dental of Illinois donates $255K for children's oral health Full story

6. CDC removes new guidance on COVID-19 transmission, reverses testing guidelines: 3 updates Full story

7. Daily COVID-19 stats, state-by-state:

• Test positivity rates
• Hospitalizations
• Death rates
• Where the virus is spreading fastest, slowest

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