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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2022 Good morning, NBC News readers.
The raging omicron variant has not only upended most American lives, but the Biden administration's plans, too, prompting some health experts to call for an urgent Covid strategy reset. A "breakthrough surgery" lends hope to the idea that one day animals could provide organs for human transplants. Plus, scientists have unearthed a 32-foot-long prehistoric "sea dragon" in the U.K.
Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning. 
The White House’s stay-the-course strategy on Covid is increasingly colliding with the realities of a roaring pandemic that is forcing schools and businesses to close.
A half dozen former health policy makers told NBC News the Biden administration needs an urgent reset on its Covid strategy or the White House could rapidly lose credibility with the public.
"Biden was elected president, in large part, based on a message of 'I'm competent, I'm capable, I will tell you the truth and I will get a handle on Covid in a way my predecessor could not and refused to do,' and that continues to be the number-one issue for most people," said Kathleen Sebelius, who served as Health and Human Services secretary in the Obama administration.
But the rapid spread of the omicron variant has created a level of disruption in many Americans’ lives not seen since the early days of the pandemic — and upended most of the Biden administration's plans to "shut down the virus." Read our full story here. Tuesday's Top Stories
David Bennett, 57, is doing well after he received the first successful transplant of a pig heart, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. The news offers a potentially new path for those facing the overburdened organ donor system. 
The Bulldogs vanquished their longtime rival to win their first national championship since 1980. 
Grab another layer, or two, this morning if you live anywhere from the Upper Midwest to New England. Wind chills are forecast to be as cold as 45 below zero as a chill grips large parts of the country. 
Ahead of President Joe Biden's big speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, some voting rights advocates see a president playing catch-up on a cause they view as make-or-break for American democracy. Also in the News
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What began with routine maintenance at a British nature reserve and reservoir has been hailed as a giant Jurassic "mega-find."
Officials at Anglian Water and the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust said Monday that they had uncovered the skeleton of an extinct prehistoric reptile predator, known colloquially as a sea dragon — the largest and most complete ever discovered in the U.K.
“It’s the most complete and larger than any dinosaur skeleton ever found here, so it’s a mega-find for so many reasons,” said paleontologist Dean Lomax, who led the excavation.
Read the full story here.
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