Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 2, 2021

Thanks for the birthday wishes yesterday... I suppose that makes me an "Oldie" myself... LOL.

Good news: The Hollywood Reporter says the folks at Coachella have announced dates for the upcoming 2022 festival, now that California is set to open later this month. The Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, will be holding Coachella on April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022. And Coachella’s country music festival, Stagecoach, will return April 29-May 01, 2022.

Fast food: you may not have known that National Doughnut Day is coming up on Friday. And KRISPY KREME will be celebrating by offering donut lovers a dozen Original Glazed doughnuts for just a buck when you also purchase a dozen at the regular price.

The folks at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who predict the chances of a hurricane rolling through our country say they're expecting 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes. That's a bit more than average, but nearly as many as last year, which produced a record 30 named storms.

You've heard about states attempting to get more people to get COVID vaccinations by offering things like million dollar lotteries? Now the state of West Virginia is also doing a lottery --with one of the prizes being five custom hunting rifles and five custom shotguns. The big prize is a million-dollars, and there are also scholarships, custom trucks and lifetime hunting and fishing licenses as well.

You probably remember how the COVID disease got its start in Wuhan, China. Now, another Chinese man has been infected with the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu. This guy is 41, and lives in Zhenjiang, on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, and has recovered and is about to be released from the hospital. Doctors say the risk of getting the disease is low, since there's only been around 160 cases in the past 40 years.

Meanwhile, that dangerous strain of COVID-19 which has ramped up the number of cases in India is reportedly spreading here in the US, and now makes up around seven percent of the new COVID cases here. Disease experts believe the Indian strain is 60 percent more transmissible than the original one.