Bill O'Reilly here Monday, February 22, 2021, you are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening today in America.

More than a half million Americans now dead from COVID.

The CDC releases new projections for the vaccine.

A top Democrat says Vax distribution should be based on racial justice.

Texas thawing out from frigid temperatures, Disney.

Blink, Kermit the frog and Miss Piggy offensive.

Also ahead, the San Francisco school board attacks American icons.

But why?

But first, the US death toll from COVID passing 500,000 over the weekend,

at least 28 million Americans have been infected since the outbreak began last February.

The majority of fatalities occurring in California, New York, Florida, and Texas.

Dr. Anthony Fauci believes we could be wearing face masks until 2022.

But I believe he is wrong as he has been so often in the past.

The Centers for Disease Control reporting the plague will likely kill another 100,000 Americans by April.

That's a total of 600,000.

Roughly the entire population of Boston.

The virus has caused overall life expectancy in the USA to drop an entire year.

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey facing a backlash after stating the vaccine should be distributed

by race.

Said,

Markey quote,

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