NBC News: The U.S. has exceeded 55 million COVID cases since the start of the pandemic.

One million new cases in three days. @NBCNews

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 3, 2022

BREAKING: Covid hospitalizations in NYC surpass 5k for first time since spring, 2020.

Today’s #’s in NYC…
* Total hospitalized: 5,038
* Total ICU: 538
* New hospital admissions in past day: 876
* Newly reported cases: 29,246
* Positivity: 22.7%

— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) January 3, 2022

Maryland's Covid positivity now a staggering 42.24%

36,646 new positive cases added since last report on Thursday

2550 people in hospitals with Covid related illness.
38 of them kids

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerbalt) January 2, 2022

New: Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tested positive for COVID-19 last week, according to a Monday news release.

The release did not say what day Patrick received the positive test or why it was not disclosed earlier. https://t.co/KO0XBzAmBO

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) January 3, 2022

He said in 2020 that grandparents should get COVID and sacrifice their lives to save the economy. https://t.co/vp0FuRcK5l

— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) January 3, 2022

Florida #COVID19 update: The number of patients hospitalized in the state with COVID increased to its highest since late September as 85,707 new cases were reported from the weekend. Here are the latest statistics. https://t.co/oWL33xFJV4

— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) January 3, 2022

The fact that Florida has reported a 1,000% increase in Covid cases over the last two weeks and yet there’s still not a single state sponsored testing facility should really be a much bigger story.

— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) December 30, 2021

The fact that DeSantis made a conspiracy theorist and Covid denier the Florida Surgeon General should be a much bigger story. https://t.co/XmlQ7j8yfu

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 3, 2022

EXCL: Boris Johnson accused of failing to self-isolate last January despite standing "face to face" with a Downing Street aide who tested positive for Covid. https://t.co/fcKACuuZGK

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 3, 2022

"The sole distributor of Covid lateral flow tests (LFTs) to pharmacies closed for four days over the Christmas period just as it received a delivery of 2.5m devices, it has emerged."

Of course it did. Par for the course in Boris Johnson's Britain. https://t.co/NrWPZFJhIR

— Edwin Hayward (@edwinhayward) January 3, 2022

A night in Carlisle will ensure far greater misery than if they’d just stayed at home and got pished in their jammies.

— Andy P (@DroooPeacock) December 31, 2021

Donald Trump might say he’s done with New York. But apparently New York isn’t done with Donald Trump.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 3, 2022

JUST IN: Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump refuse to comply with subpoenas issued by the New York State attorney general’s office as it conducts a civil investigation into the way the family real estate business valued its holdings. https://t.co/Qg21eGkQYA

— ABC News (@ABC) January 3, 2022

NEW: A "strategic communications plan" developed by allies of former president Donald Trump called for targeting homes of secretaries of state & election officials in swing states, according to documents provided to the @January6thCmte https://t.co/i3jzFARF3n

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 3, 2022

CBS News poll:

62% of the country says Trump shouldn't run for President again.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 3, 2022

“A person with knowledge of the investigation has told me that the committee has information from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge that describe what then President Trump was saying, doing, and not doing…” pic.twitter.com/E4DlVcqkfR

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 3, 2022

NEW: @meridithmcgraw and I contacted eighteen Trump administration officials who stepped down as a result of Jan. 6 or whose resignation seemed timed to it. Only one agreed to speak on the record about their decision that day. https://t.co/PCs0s3OObl

— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) January 3, 2022

On Wednesday, AG Garland will update DOJ employees on what a dept-wide email characterizes as the effort to hold those responsible for Jan 6 accountable. The AG will “discuss the…duty to uphold the Constitution & follow the facts & the law in all cases” to defend democracy.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 3, 2022

This is my top recommended read for the new year. The fight to save American democracy is coming. We all need to understand the stakes.https://t.co/q7HXLEz2de

— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 3, 2022

NEW — Just days before the first anniversary of his attempt to end America's democracy, Trump announces his endorsement for the guy who is trying to end Hungary's.https://t.co/zF0AY5xsi7

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 3, 2022

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's 2009 settlement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been releasedhttps://t.co/ePdJKoa1CL

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) January 3, 2022

Prince Andrew accuser Virginia Giuffre's $500k settlement deal with Jeffrey Epstein released https://t.co/kXpwrRhhBo

— i newspaper (@theipaper) January 3, 2022

Virginia Giuffre's settlement agreement with Jeffrey Epstein was released today. Prince Andrew argues that her settlement with Epstein releases him as well, and therefore her case against him should be dismissed.

I've done hundreds of these over 35 years

Here's why he is wrong

— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) January 3, 2022

What we know about Tuesday’s Prince Andrew / Virginia Giuffre court hearing: pic.twitter.com/eqbXnybhIF

— Joe Pike (@joepike) January 3, 2022

Interesting snippet from the 2009 Florida settlement #VirginiaGiuffre had to sign after recieving State ordered compensation from #Epstein.
"from the beginning of the world to the day of this release."

The document was released today in the civil case Giuffre v #PrinceAndrew pic.twitter.com/ZZKX9QzXJ3

— Prince.&.The.Pervert.Podcast (@ohreallytruly) January 3, 2022

With release of “settlement” between Epstein & Prince Andrew’s accuser, we see he is relying on “potential defendants” as his get out clause

Well he never met her, he was in Pizza Express, so it’s difficult for him to argue he was a “potential deft”

You can’t have your cake…. pic.twitter.com/hEq5f7I20w

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) January 3, 2022

Legal team of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has demanded proof of Prince Andrew’s claim that Giuffre’s accusation of sexual abuse is false because the prince was medically unable to sweat.

Andrew in 2019: “I have a peculiar medical condition … I didn’t sweat at the time.” pic.twitter.com/0Et2fFmyuS

— The Recount (@therecount) January 3, 2022

Prince Andrew called himself "honourable".

He's using a legal process initiated by his old friend Jeffrey Epstein to defend him rather than addressing the substance of the allegations. https://t.co/cp5b5vFeHo S

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) January 3, 2022

If he pays a settlement to avoid court on this one the number will be very high (if there is one) and this case will open up a credibility trail for other potential victims to follow. I don't see this ending quickly, cheaply or satisfactory for him.

— alt – DUP (@dup_online) January 3, 2022

Prince Andrew’s effort to immediately block the progression of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 — on the grounds that she no longer lives in the U.S. — was rejected by a federal judge. https://t.co/ClckqQVQEw

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 3, 2022

Here’s my bit in the Sunday Mirror. It seems I’m the only person prepared to stick up for Prince Andrew. pic.twitter.com/XThiGzXUcW

— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) January 2, 2022