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Omicron

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Jan 05

Under strain, France allows some health care workers to keep working while positive for COVID-19

By John Leicester, Associated Press

France is allowing health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus but have few or no symptoms to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate.

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Jan 05

Chicago cancels classes after union backs remote learning

By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press

Chicago schools have canceled classes after the teachers union voted to switch to remote learning due to record COVID-19 levels.

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Jan 03

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COVID surge continues to upend Americans’ travel plans, return to school

By Amna Nawaz, Shoshana Dubnow

COVID continues to spread quickly throughout the U.S. on the first Monday of the new year, forcing airlines and businesses to limit operations as many workers are falling ill or testing positive. The surge from the omicron variant is disrupting…

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Jan 03

British government rushing COVID tests to schools so classes can reopen

By Mike Corder, Associated Press

Schoolchildren have returned to classes in parts of Europe, while the British government is pledging to rush ventilation units and enough COVID-19 test kits to schools to ensure they, too, can reopen later this week despite soaring infection rates.

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Jan 02

Fauci: CDC mulling COVID test requirement for asymptomatic

By Hope Yen, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now considering including the negative test as part of its guidance after getting significant “pushback” on its updated recommendations last week.

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Dec 31

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Is it safe to gather for New Year’s Eve? Here’s what one doctor recommends

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The U.S. has set a new daily record by topping 580,000 new COVID cases Thursday. For the first time in the pandemic, America recorded more than two million cases in a week. It is now averaging more than 300,000 new…

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Dec 31

U.K. reports surge in COVID deaths, builds temporary wards

By Danica Kirka, Associated Press

While the figures are the highest in almost 10 months, they are still far below the peaks reported last January, when most people were unvaccinated.

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Dec 31

New Year’s Eve muted by omicron, many around the world hope for better 2022

By Nick Perry, Associated Press

In many places around the world, plans for New Year's Eve celebrations are muted or canceled for the second straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections, this time driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.

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Dec 30

CDC warns against cruises, regardless of vaccination status

By News Desk

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to go on cruises, regardless of their vaccination status, because of onboard outbreaks fueled by the omicron variant.

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Dec 30

3 big questions about the Biden administration’s COVID response in 2022

By Lev Facher, STAT

STAT looked at Biden's COVID strategy and whether 2022 could finally be the year the pandemic fades into the background.

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