Teachers unions across America resist school openings.

Democrats prepare for Trump's Senate impeachment trial,

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Okay, so let's talk COVID for a few moments here. So right now, COVID continues to spread across

the country. If you look at the latest statistics, actually, COVID seems to be a little bit on the wane.

That is true, both in terms of infections and in terms of deaths.

The high number of detected infections in the United States came around the first week of January.

According to worldometers, January 8th, we had about 308,000 diagnosed cases of COVID in the United States.

Today, we are down to about half that, about 152,000 diagnosed cases of COVID in the United

States. The same thing seems to be true of deaths. The high in deaths was, again, right around

that middle of January, January 12th, January 11th, January 8th, you're talking about 4,000 deaths a day.

Now we are dropping slightly, not hugely, but slightly down to about 3,500, 3,400 deaths a day.

The real worry right now when it comes to COVID is the possibility of new variants.

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