COVID

Influenza, colds, Strep Throat, RSV and COVID are some examples of some of the viruses/illness many Central Minnesotans are dealing with this winter. Dr. David Smith from Sartell Pediatrics joined me on WJON to explain the differences between some of these ailments.

COVID-19 variants continue to mutate but should we be concerned with the latest one? The latest is an omicron variant called XBB .1.116. CentraCare Spokesman Dr. George Morris joined me on WJON to explain what this new COVID variant is.

ST. PAUL -- Flags will fly at half-staff Monday across the state. Governor Tim Walz has directed all flags at state and federal buildings in Minnesota to be flown at half staff Monday to remember, mourn and honor the one-million Americans who’ve lost their lives due to COVID-19. ...

A mother allegedly put her son in the trunk of her car as she went through a COVID testing site near Houston.

Watch as a grown woman in Argentina takes her dress off as she enters a business and attempts to use the dress as a mask.

A Long Island woman is facing charges after allegedly injecting a teen with the COVID vaccine.

A man in Florida was removed from an American Airlines flight after he used a pair of women's underwear as a protective mask.

"Everyday we get emails from customers who are not happy with us."

A livestock dewormer known as the ivermectin has been hard to find in farm stores due to "COVID truthers" touting it as a supposed cure-all against the pandemic.

Watch as a COVID patient in a Baton Rouge hospital expresses her disgust for not getting the COVID vaccination when she could have.