* News goes remote again amid COVID-19 surge.

* Dr. Robert Malone to Joe Rogan: US in ‘Mass Formation Psychosis’ Over COVID-19 - Jack Phillips.

* “Our government is out of control on this,” Malone said about vaccine mandates “And they are lawless. They completely disregard bioethics. They completely disregard the federal common rule.

* “These mandates … are explicitly illegal” and “are explicitly inconsistent with the Nuremberg Code,” Malone said during his interview with Rogan, “They are flat-out illegal, and they don’t care.”

* NYC Struggling To Keep Going As Virus Spikes - More than 80% of adult New Yorkers are fully vaccinated.

* Puerto Rico Faces Covid Case Explosion Despite Its Vaccine Success - Frances Robles - The island had a 4,600 percent increase in cases in recent weeks after mounting one of the nation's most successful vaccination campaigns.

* Nearly 85% of those in Puerto Rico have received at least one vaccine dose, and about 75% have gotten both shots.

* More than 2,100 public school districts nationwide closed their doors for in-person learning beginning Jan. 3.

* Whoopi Goldberg tested positive for COVID-19 over the break along with several of her cohosts of "The View," - "Since she's vaxxed and boosted, her symptoms have been very, very mild.

* Fauci Admits OVER INFLATED Number of Children Hospitalized with Covid.

* The national average price for used cars is now $29,000 - a 42% increase since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.