Son of Covid: In a frightening development, a variant of the coronavirus found in Brazil can cause re-infection with Covid-19 even after a person has developed anti-bodies with a first infection.

  In South Africa, a mutation called B.1.351 can dodge antibodies and the effectiveness of some vaccines.

  The drug companies Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson say they will deliver enough doses to fully vaccinate 130 million people, more than one-third of the US population, by the end of March. President Biden has pledged to get 100 million people vaccinated by the end of his first 100 days in office.

  Former President Donald Trump and his wife were inoculated against Covid-19 before they left the White House, his office announced. Both had previously been infected.

  Despite dismissing the pandemic during the campaign season —  “It’s going to disappear. It is disappearing” — he encouraged the crowd last weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference to get vaccinated. “Everybody, go get your shot,” he said.

  This morning, 514,660 Americans are dead of Covid-19.

Strike Three: A third woman has accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate behavior.

  The “wood” on the front of the NY Post this morning says “HANDY ANDY.”

  Anna Ruch, now 33, said she met Cuomo at the wedding of mutual friends in 2019. She says she thanks him for his kind words about her friends and then he put his hand on her bare lower back. She says she removed his hand before he put his hands on her face and asked if he could kiss her.

  Ruch told The NY Times “I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed.” There’s a picture of the encounter and other people overheard what happened. 

  In response to two previous accusers, Cuomo issued a statement saying his actions are sometimes misunderstood.

Block That Vote: As Republican legislators across the country move to prevent a repeat of the voter fraud that didn’t happen, Georgia’s House Republicans passed a bill that would place more restrictions on absentee voting and cut back on weekend early voting hours. 

 The bill would also strip the secretary of state of his role as chair of the State Election Board. The current secretary of state is the one who refused to “find’ enough votes to hand President Trump the election.

  The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Barry Fleming, said the 66-page law is purportedly designed to restore confidence in the election system. Of course, it’s Republicans who destroyed faith in the system.  

Zapped: It’s not just home customers that were financially electrocuted in the Texas blizzard and power outage. 

  Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, the biggest power cooperative in Texas, filed for bankruptcy after receiving $2.1 billion in bills from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which maintains and operates much of the state’s grid.

  For five days the price of power hit $9,000 a megawatt hour and ERCOT heaped on $25,000 in fees on top of that. Brazos recovers its costs from its 16 member utilities, which collect from home customers.

French Toast: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty in Paris yesterday of corruption and influence peddling  and sentenced to a year in jail. He’s almost certain the appeal. It’s not the only legal jam he’s in and that was the motivation for what he did. Sarkozy was found guilty of trying to get a judge to reveal information in a criminal case against him in return for promising to use his influence to get a prestigious job for the judge.

  Sarkozy also faces trial on charges of illegally overspending on his campaign and, in yet another case, on charges that he illegally accepted funding from the government of the late Libyan dictator, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

  Sarkozy seemed like such a cool guy. 

Russia, With Love: The Biden administration is preparing to impose sanctions on Russia for poisoning and now jailing opposition leader Alexei Navalny, CNN reports. Navalny has been sent to one of Russia’s harshest penal colonies, basically for opposing Vladimir Putin.

  Navalny survived poisoning with a nerve agent last August, an attack assumed to have been sanctioned by Putin.

The Obit Page: Former NFL Pro Bowl defensive back Irv Cross, who was the first black man to work full time as a sports analyst on national television with CBS, died Sunday at 81.

  Cross played nine years in the NFL and was on the CBS broadcast team for 23 years. He had a reputation for being brutal on the football field and a gentleman everywhere else. His former CBScolleague Brent Musberger said, “No one ever had a bad thing to say about Irv.” 

The Bulletin Board: Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona has been confirmed to be Secretary of Education. The bi-lingual  Cardona is the  son of Puerto Rican parents. He grew up in public housing in Meriden, Conn., and was educated in public schools. — For the first time in 100 years a wolf has been seen near Yosemite National Park in northern California. The wolf identified as OR-93 was born in Oregon south of Mt. Hood. Wolves in California were hunted to extinction in the 1920s. 

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