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The Challenge: Double Agents' Wes Bergmann Teases How COVID Might Change the Show Forever

The Challenge, MTV's current longest running reality show, is one of those series. The new season, Double Agents, was shot entirely during the pandemic and the production crew went through great pains not only to keep the cast safe from catching the novel coronavirus, but also to make it look like COVID wasn't a factor. "Not only did they innovate in production quality, game creativity, and casting creativity and all that stuff that they innovated on — then they had to innovate on a whole new model, which was how do you create a bubble in another country?," veteran contestant Wes Bergmann told TV Guide ahead of the new season, which premieres on Wednesday.

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Diane Velazquez wins seat on Apopka City Council in runoff election

APOPKA, Fla. – Diane Velazquez has won a seat on the Apopka City Council after a runoff election was held on Tuesday, according to unofficial results on the website of the Orange County Supervisor of Elections.[TRENDING: This woman received the first COVID-19 vaccine | Judge scolds theme park trespasser | Chuck Yeager dies at 97]Votes will be finalized on Friday.With all the precincts reporting, Velazquez received 3,374 votes and Yesenia Baron received 2,407 votes.Back in November, Velazquez had 42% of the vote.[RELATED: Here’s why we don’t know who won Apopka City Council seat 2]Mandates state a candidate needs more than 50 percent to get the seat, Velazquez was able to hit the mark in the runoff on Tuesday.She served as the Seat 2

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WWII veteran discharged after beating COVID-19, just in time for 104th birthday

MADISON, Ala. - An Alabama hospital shared heartwarming footage of a patient who beat COVID-19 and was released from the hospital just in time for his 104th birthday.Major Lee Wooten got quite the sendoff from staff at Madison Hospital on Dec. 1 after he was given a clean bill of health.

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Pediatricians recommend mask-wearing for children while playing sports to prevent COVID-19

A boy plays basketball at a public playground on 1st avenue as New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children playing most sports should wear cloth face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Amid rising COVID-19 cases, millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks

LOS ANGELES - The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation’s heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then the virus began eating away at her work hours and her paycheck.The Crawfords had no savings, mounting bills and a growing dread: What if they ran out of food? The couple had two boys, 5 and 10, and boxes of macaroni and cheese from the dollar store could go only so far.A 37-year-old Navy vet, Crawford saw himself as self-reliant.

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Dez Bryant tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of Ravens vs. Cowboys game

Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Dez Bryant adjusts his face covering while working out prior to an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Baltimore.

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Tide, Irish, Tigers, Buckeyes hold steady atop CFP rankings

For the third straight week, Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson and Ohio State held on to the top four spots in the College Football Playoff rankings.The selection committee's second-from-last rankings had only a little movement in the top 10. Texas A&M is still fifth and Florida held at sixth.Iowa State moved up a couple of spots to seventh after earning a spot in the Big 12 title game.

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Bryant reunion with Cowboys apparently canceled by COVID

BALTIMORE – Baltimore Ravens receiver Dez Bryant was scratched from Tuesday night's game against his former team after apparently testing positive for COVID-19.Bryant left the field in the middle of warming up with the team, and the Ravens announced less than an hour before their game against Dallas that he was scratched with an illness. Bryant wrote on Twitter: “Tell me why they pull me from warming up so I can go get tested...

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Frost Advisory in effect for a large part of Central Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. – High pressure is still in control.[TRENDING: This woman received the first COVID-19 vaccine | Judge scolds theme park trespasser | Chuck Yeager dies at 97]We are looking at another cold night in Central Florida. There is now a Frost Advisory in Effect for everyone except Flagler, Coastal Volusia, and Brevard counties.Everyone else has the Frost Advisory until 8 a.m.

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Covid-19 patients with same name leads to confusion in death certificates

COVID-19 dedicated hospital here led to a living patient at the facility being wrongly "declared dead," his family member said on Tuesday.A senior official at the city government-run LNJP Hospital, however, said the confusion happened due to the patient, Shrinwas Kumar, being a namesake of another patient, who later died."Both Shrinwases, aged 33 and 44, were brought to the hospital within a few minutes of a gap, and the 44-year-old COVID patient later died.

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Self registration to get Covid-19 vaccines: All you need to know

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk critical of California, leaves the state and moves to Texas

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Tesla CEO Elon Musk has left California and is now a resident of Texas.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Musk said that the move made sense, amid plans underway for a new Tesla factory in the Austin area.Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to the media about the condition of the factory workers who were injured at the Tesla plant earlier in the day, outside of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, Nov.

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Doctor pleads for review of data on ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment during Senate hearing

WASHINGTON - As researchers around the world search to find existing drugs that can be repurposed to treat COVID-19, the potential effectiveness of one drug was highlighted in a Senate hearing on early treatment for the virus.Ivermectin is an approved anti-parasitic drug known to be effective against a variety of viruses like influenza, dengue, and Zika.Dr.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

UK is first western country to approve COVID-19 vaccine

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