- Disruption, Dismay, Dissent: Americans Grapple With Omicron’s Rise (nytimes.com)
- Chicago teachers union, amid omicron spike, defies city order to return to classrooms (washingtonpost.com)
- House GOP committee deletes tweet spreading disinformation about Covid-19 booster shots (cnn.com)
- Coronavirus risk calculations get harder as a study suggests rapid tests may be less effective at detecting omicron (washingtonpost.com)
- QAnon Star Who Said Only ‘Idiots’ Get Vax Dies of COVID (news.yahoo.com)
- More than 103,000 Americans hospitalized with covid, matching worst of summer surge (washingtonpost.com)US reports global record of more than 1m daily Covid cases (theguardian.com)Starbucks will require U.S. employees to either be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID tests (nydailynews.com)Second Chinese city forced into Covid lockdown (bbc.com)
- Air Travel Is No Holiday as Covid and Storms Cancel Flights (nytimes.com)JetBlue cancels nearly 1,300 flights through mid-January over COVID-19 call-outs (nydailynews.com)
