Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jan 22, 2021

Even though there was a winner for the Powerball jackpot, there's still the Mega Millions jackpot tonight, which would be worth an estimated $970 million --and the United States' third-largest lottery jackpot ever.

COVID update #1: Yesterday the organizers cancelled this year's Glastonbury Festival "with great regret." It's the second year in a row they've had to cancel due to the Coronavirus pandemic. PAUL McCARTNEY was the event's headliner back in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020 for the 50th anniversary. But it was cancelled because of the spreading Coronavirus. And just before Christmas this year, McCartney told the BBC he wouldn't be coming either because it would be a "superspreader." TAYLOR SWIFT and KENDRICK LAMAR were also on the bill for this year's concert. So just like last year, producers offered to roll over their 50-pound deposit to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume.

COVID update #2: French health honchos are urging their citizens to give up cotton masks because they aren’t effective enough against those new variants of COVID-19, and that response is spreading. The NY Post asked a New Jersey-based cardiologist, Dr. RAJESH MOHAN, who said “The gold standard are obviously the N95 masks, regardless of the COVID strain.” It was also found to be the best mask in a comprehensive review of masks by Duke University researchers over the summer. Mohan reccomends the KF94s, KN95s or N95s. “The next best thing is surgical masks,” he says. “If people wore them, there would be about 70 percent decrease in infection,” but he advised against buying masks on eBay or Amazon because there are bootleg versions floating around.

COVID update #3: Actor and former California Gov. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER made headlines on Wednesday as he got his COVID-19 vaccination in Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium, and posted a video of himself getting his shot, saying “Come with me if you want to live!” (A quote from his “Terminator” movies, of course). made sure that the moment was punctuated with two zingers from his own films. “I have never been happier to wait in a line,” Schwarzenegger wrote on Twitter.