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  • Mike Pence received the COVID-19 vaccine on television this morning.
  • Nurses around the state, from Buffalo to New Rochelle, are feeling anxious and unprepared for the second wave of COVID patients: “We need staff, we need help, we need resources. I’m fearful for my patients and I’m fearful that the same thing that happened back in March, it’s going to happen again — and once again, we’re not prepared.”
  • Aides apparently talked Donald Trump out of calling for “at least” $1,200 or even $2,000 stimulus payments per person.
  • A 58-year-old driver was trapped for over 10 hours after a plow covered his car with almost four feet of snow in upstate New York.
  • Parties are raging at South Florida bars and nightclubs.
  • Vox looks at how Camden, New Jersey is knocking on doors to convince people in Black and Latinx communities to take the vaccine.
  • The Week lists 17 strange things that happened in 2020, besides the pandemic, that you may or may not have already forgotten about.
  • The roof of an athletic dome in Binghamton collapsed because of all that snow they got.
  • Listen to Paul McCartney's weird, sorta goofy, surprisingly solid new album McCartney III.
  • And finally, I did not like Megan Thee Stallion's song "Body" until I saw this music video for it, and now I get it: