- Flight cancellations, delays continue Wednesday as airlines grapple with fallout from omicron variant, severe weather (washingtonpost.com)
- The pandemic has caused nearly two years of collective trauma. Many people are near a breaking point. (washingtonpost.com)
- US hospitals struggle with staffing shortages and Omicron outbreaks (theguardian.com)
- As Covid Surges, Experts Say U.S. Booster Effort Is Far Behind (nytimes.com)COVID resurgent in Florida, new cases double to 30,000 in a week (tampabay.com)COVID kills South Florida police more often than gunfire (tampabay.com)More than 10,000 new Omicron cases found in UK (bbc.com)Europeans reimpose restrictions as omicron sweeps continent (apnews.com)Kamala Harris concedes White House ‘didn’t see’ Delta and Omicron coming (theguardian.com)Judge orders anti-vaxx dad not to speak to his kids about COVID (nydailynews.com)
- Healthy, boosted people unlikely to develop severe omicron infections, but jury’s out on older, at-risk populations (washingtonpost.com)
- As Omicron Spreads and Cases Soar, the Unvaccinated Remain Defiant (nytimes.com)
- While omicron explodes around the world, covid cases in Japan keep plummeting and no one knows exactly why (washingtonpost.com)
- Joe Biden says US Covid surge should be ‘a source of concern but not panic’ (theguardian.com)
- Lufthansa, United, Delta cancel flights over Christmas holiday as COVID Omicron spreads (apnews.com)
- Fauci warns omicron variant will cause record-high coronavirus hospitalizations, deaths in U.S. (washingtonpost.com)
